THE   VIEWPOINT    SERIES 
Josephine  Adams  Rathbone,  Editor 


VIEWPOINTS  IN  BIOGRAPHY 

AN  •  ARRANGEMENT  •  OF  •  BOOKS 
ACCORDING  •  TO   •  THEIR 
ESSENTIAL-  INTEREST 


BY 


Katherine   Tappert 

Libarian 
New  York  Evening  Post 


CHICAGO 

AMERICAN    LIBRARY    ASSOCIATION 
PUBLISHING   BOARD 

1921 


8693 


THE  VIEWPOINT  SERIES 

ESSAYS       IN       INTERPRETIVE       BIBLIOGRAPHY, 

EDITED  BY  JOSEPHINE  ADAMS  RATHBONE, 

VICE-DIRECTOR,    PRATT   INSTITUTE 

LIBRARY   SCHOOL 

Viewpoints  in  Travel,  by  Josephine  Adams 
Rathbone. 

Viewpoints  in  Biography,  by  Katherine  Tap- 
pert,  Librarian,  New  York  Evening  Post. 

In  Preparation 

Viewpoints  in  Essays,  by  Marion  Horton, 

Principal  of  the  Los  Angeles 

Library  School. 


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PREFACE 

Like  the  preceding  list,  Viewpoints  in  Travel,  this  also  aims 
to  present  a  selection  of  books  from  a  standpoint  not  usually 
considered.  Biographies  are  generally  thought  of  in  connection 
with  the  person  written  about  and  not  on  account  of  the  idea 
that  dominated  the  individual's  life  nor  because  the  personality 
brought  out  some  very  valuable  contribution  to  life.  Here,  the 
plan  has  been  to  arrange  biographies  according  to  the  subject  or 
the  idea  that  makes  them  stimulating  or  interesting  without  at- 
tempting to  include  the  lives  of  all  prominent  or  important  people. 

There  is  probably  no  class  of  literature  so  large,  that  contains 
so  few  really  fine  examples  of  the  form,  as  biography.  This  list, 
therefore,  is  not  exhaustive.  The  most  readable  and  lovable 
biographies  and  autobiographies  have  been  chosen  and  they  have 
been,  in  the  main,  annotated  by  those  people  who  have  had  great 
appreciation  for  them.  Mrs.  Burr  and  Mr.  Dunn  have  been 
most  cordial  in  permitting  me  to  quote  from  their  books,  "The 
Autobiography"  and  "English  Biography,"  respectively.  These 
have  been  valuable  and  delightful  sources. 

Many  others  have  assisted  by  giving  opinion  and  advice  and 
to  them  I  am  deeply  indebted. 

No  rare  books  have  been  included.  Of  necessity,  some  books 
that  are  out  of  print  but  accessible  in  libraries  and  book  shops 
have  been  listed.  The  book  market  is  as  unsettled  now  as  most 
things  in  the  world  and  although  the  list  was  revised  by  Mr,  Mel- 
cher  of  Publisher's  Weekly,  there  are  probably  many  books  which 
will  be  out  of  print  by  the  time  this  book  appears.  Because  of 
frequent  changes  the  prices  of  books  have  been  omitted. 

New  York  K.  T. 

7  October  1920 


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CONTENTS 


Page 

Adams  Family   7 

Adventures    8 

American  Indians 9 

Americanization    10 

Art    11 

Charming  personalities    13 

Childhood  and  youth  14 

Concealed  autobiographies   16 

Conquerors    17 

Democracy 17 

Diplomatic   memoirs 18 

Economic  problems   18 

Education    19 

English  country  life 20 

English  public  life  20 

Evolution 23 

French  life    23 

Friendships    24 

Gossipv  memoirs   24 

Great  War    26 

Literary  genius  27 

L/)ndon    30 

Mid-Victorians    31 

The  Middle  West 32 

Missions 33 

Music  33 

Mysticism    35 

Nature  lovers 36 

New  England   38 

New  York 39 

Orient   40 

Parents  and  children  40 

Pioneer  women 41 

Poetry 42 

Political  history   43 

Pre-Raphaelitism    44 

Publishers  and  press 44 

Radiant  adventures   45 

Religious  experiences 46 


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Renaissance   48 

Romantic  love 48 

Russian  life 49 

Science  50 

Sea 51 

Self-studies    51 

Self-made  men  52 

Social  service 53 

South    54 

Stage 55 

Stimulating  lives 56 

United  States  history 57 

War  between  the  States 58 

The  West 59 


VIEWPOINTS  IN  BIOGRAPHY 


/  am  not  made  like  anyone  else  I  have  ever 
known;  yet  if  I  am  not  belter,  at  least  I  am 
different. — Jean  Jacques  Rousseau. 


THE  ADAMS  FAMILY 

Few  American  families  have  made  so  much  impression  on  the 
world  as  the  Adamses.  As  a  study  in  heredity  these  biographies 
and  autobiographies  would  interest  one  who  cared  nothing  for 
the  accomplishments  or  the  personalities  of  the  individuals. 

Adams,  John,  1735-1826.  Morse,  J.  T.,  Jr.  John  Adams 
(American  Statesmen).     Houghton,  1900, 

Adams,  John  and  Abigail  (Smith),  Familiar  letters  of  John 
Adams  and  his  wife  Abigail  Adams  during  the  Revolu- 
tion, with  a  memoir  of  Mrs.  Adams.     Houghton,  1904. 

This  is  a  new  edition,  the  letters  having  been  published  originally  in  1876. 

Adams,  John  Quincy,  1767-1848.  Morse,  J.  T.,  Jr.  Life  of 
John  Quincy  Adams.     Houghton,  1899. 

Morse  has  covered  the  Adams  period  in  an  impartial  way.  His  biogra- 
phies are  most  satisfactory  and  need  only  the  occasional  more  intimate 
light  of  Brooks  Adams's  "Hermitage  of  Henry  Adams,"  to  give  a  com- 
plete picture  of  the  two  generations  of  the  family. 

Adams,  Charles  Francis,  1807-1886.  Adams,  Charles  Francis, 
n.  Charles  Francis  Adams  (American  Statesmen). 
Houghton,  1900. 

Charles  Francis  Adams  was  the  son  of  John  Quincy  Adams.  He  ren- 
dered invaluable  service  to  the  Government  as  Minister  to  England  dur- 
ing the  war  between  the  states. 

Adams,  Charles  Francis,  II,  1835-1918.  An  autobiography. 
Houghton,  1916. 

In  the  first  place,  a  really  strong  personality  values  all  things  by  its 
own  scale.  .  .  In  the  second  place  a  strong  personality  impresses  its 
own  peculiar  quality,  its  tastes,  preferences,  instinctive  views  with  a  force 
that  somehow  sets  free  new  energy  in  those  who  come  in  contact  with  it. 
This  is  eminently  true  of  Charles  Francis  Adams's  personality  as  ex- 
pressed in  his  autobiography. — North  American  Review. 


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Adams,  Henry.  The  education  of  Henry  Adams :  an  auto- 
biography.   Houghton,  1918. 

Henry  Adams  and  Charles  Francis  Adams,  II,  were  sons  of  Charles 
Francis  Adams,  I. 

ADVENTURES 

Records  of  daring  or  endurance  will  be  found  also  under  the 
headings  The  Sea,  Self-Made  Men,  and  The  West. 

Burge,  C.  O.  Adventures  of  a  civil  engineer;  fifty  years  on 
five  continents.     Rivers,  1909. 

As  one  might  suppose  these  memoirs  are  not  subjective,  but  we  miss 
nothing  of  the  fearlessness  and  the  humor  with  which  the  author  meets  life. 

Cellini,  Benvenuto.  Life,  translated  by  John  Addington 
Symonds,  with  an  introduction  by  Royal  Cortissoz.  2  v. 
Brentano,  1917. 

Here  is  a  man  who  is  so  full  of  energy  that  his  life  seems  to  be  one 
desperate  struggle  and  who  is  most  at  home  in  the  periods  of  most  over- 
powering excitement,  whether  firing  guns  at  the  siege  of  Rome,  or  pitch- 
ing all  his  plate  into  the  furnace  to  help  the  fusing  of  the  statue  Perseus 
.  .  .  .  a  man  in  short,  who  makes  us  wonder  as  we  read  whether  the 
world  has  advanced  or  gone  back. — Leslie  Stephen. 

Davis,  Richard  Harding.  Adventures  and  letters  of  Richard 
Harding  Davis,  edited  by  Charles  Belmont  Davis,  2  v. 
Scribner,  1917. 

These  letters  abound  in  adventure — all  graphically  and  familiarly 
sketched — all  touched  with  humor  and  the  glow  of  romance. — North  Amer- 
ican Review. 

Franklin,  Sir  John.  Beesly,  Augustus  Henry.  Sir  John  Frank- 
lin.   Merrill  &  Baker,  1881. 

Arctic  explorations  that  have  never  been  equalled  for  their  thrilling 
adventure  as  well  as  their  scientific  value. 

Galton,  Francis.     Memoirs  of  my  life.     Dutton,  1909. 

Francis  Galton  was  an  early  explorer  in  South  Africa  and  a  pioneer  in 
the  study  of  heredity  and  eugenics. 

Herbert  of  Cherbury,  Lord  Edward.  His  life  written  by  him- 
self.    Houghton,  1905. 

In  him  we  find  the  singular  combination  of  fire-eating  duelist  with  the 
man  of  high  intellectual  power. 

His  thirst  for  chivalrous  adventure  may  remind  us  of  The  Don  or  of 
Cellini. — Leslie  Stephen. 


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Lucy,  Sir  Henry.    Sixty  years  in  the  wilderness.    Button,  1909. 

Toby,  M.  P.,  has  written  a  sequel  to  his  "Nearing  the  Jordan."  Life 
tremendously  amused  him. 

Moore,  Sir  John.     Diary.    2  v.     Longmans,  1904. 

This  diary  covers  the  war  1793-1808 — Corsica — St.  Lucia,  Irish  rebellion 
and  Egypt,  all  reflecting  an  absorbing  personality. 

Osborn,  Chase  Salmon.    Iron  hunter.    Macmillan,  1919. 

The  invisible  censor  was  not  present  when  Mr.  Osborn  wrote  his  auto- 
biography,— fearlessly  and  at  times  eloquently, — of  prospecting  for  iron 
and  campaigning  against  civic  vice  with  Pingree  in  Michigan. 

When  Mr.  Osborn  writes  of  other  things  he  stumbles  and  bruises  his 
thought,  but  when  he  writes  of  iron  he  is  crystalline,  eloquent  and  com- 
prehensible.— Frederic  Melcher. 

Pumpelly,  Raphael.    My  reminiscences.    2  v.    Holt,  1918. 

A  fortunate  and  useful  life  in  which  the  usefulness  and  the  good  for- 
tune are  so  mingled  that  one  does  not  know  which  to  call  a  cause,  which 
a  result,  and  in  this  especially  fortunate  that  it  nowhere  waned  in  vigor 
and  toward  its  end  walked  nearest  to  the  shores  of  old  romance. — The 
New  Republic. 

Selous,  Frederick  Courteney.    Millais,  J.  G.    The  life  of  Fred- 
erick Courteney  Selous,  D.  S.  O.     Longmans,  1920. 

Selous  has  three  claims  to  remembrance:  one  as  a  big  game  hunter; 
another  as  mediator  between  natives  and  white  administrators  in  Africa 
and  third  as  naturalist. — Adapted  from  N.  Y.  Evening  Post. 

Stanley,   Sir   Henry    Morton.     Autobiography,    ed.    by    Lady 
Stanley.     Houghton,  1909. 

Wanderings  in  Great  Britain  and  the  U.  S.  during  the  Civil  War  and 
later  through  darkest  Africa,  from  a  narrative  told  at  first  by  Sir  Henry 
and  later  by  Lady  Stanley. 


AMERICAN  INDIANS 
Books  of  much  the  same  sort  will  be  found  under  The  West. 

Eastman,  Charles  Alexander.     Indian  boyhood.     Little,  1902. 

From  the  deep  wood  to  civilization;  chapters  in  the 


autobiography  of  an  Indian.     Little,  1916. 

The  author  is  a  Sioux  who  lived  with  his  tribe  in  the  Northwest  until 
he,  with  ideals  for  his  race,  went  forth  to  college. 


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Geronimo.  Geronimo's  story  of  his  life  taken  down  and  ed.  by 
S.  H.  Barrett.    Duffield,  1906. 

A  prisoner  of  war,  the  great  Indian  chief  was  extended  the  privilege  of 
stating  the  causes  "that  impelled  The  Apaches  to  rebel  against  law."  The 
story  is  simple  but  it  reveals  the  Apache  spirit — still  flaming, 

Joseph,  Chief  of  the  Nez  Perce.  Howard,  Oliver  Otis.  Nez 
Perce  Joseph :  an  account  of  his  ancestors,  his  lands,  his 
confederates,  his  enemies,  his  murders,  his  war,  his  pur- 
suit and  his  capture.     Lee  &  Shephard,  1881. 

LaCombe,  Albert.  Hughes,  Katharine.  Father  LaCombe — 
the  black  robed  voyageur.     Moffatt,  1911. 

This  shows  Canada  in  the  interesting  period  of  its  nineteenth  century 
development. 

Sitting  Bull.  Johnson,  Willis  Fletcher.  The  red  record  of 
The  Sioux:  the  life  of  Sitting  Bull  and  history  of  the 
Indian  war  of  1890-1891.     Edgewood,  1891. 


AMERICANIZATION 

The  best  proof  that  Americanization  is  possible  and  valuable 
lies  in  the  stories  of  those  who  have  been  Americanized. 

Antin,  Mary.     Promised  land.     Houghton,  1912. 

An  introspective  autobiography  of  a  Russian  Jewish  girl,  who  under 
the  influence  of  the  best  she  found  in  this  country,  became  an  enlightened, 
public-spirited  American. 

Cohen,  Rose.     Out  of  the  shadow.     Doran,  1918. 

Rose  Cohen's  experience  and  her  story  of  it  is  quite  different  from  any 
of  the  others  of  this  group.  She  has  not  risen  to  high  estate  and  probably 
will  not.    But  she  has  felt  that  thing  which  gives  us  faith  in  our  country. 

Hale,  Edward  Everett.     Hale,  Edward  Everett,  jr.     Life  and 
letters  of  Edward  Everett  Hale.     2  v.     Little,  1917. 

The  spirit  of  this  great  American  was  immortalized  in  the  story  that 
won  him  undying  fame,  The  man  ivithout  a  country. 

Ravage,  Marcus  Eli.    American  in  the  making;  the  life  story 
of  an  immigrant.     Harper,  1917. 

Rihbany,  Abraham  Mitrie.     A  far  journey.     Houghton,  1914. 

Twenty-five  years  ago  a  young  Syrian  came  to  this  country.  He  was 
penniless  but  he  had  a  vision,  and  he  is  now  a  citizen  of  Boston,  the  pastor 
of  a  church. 


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Riis,  Jacob.     Making  of  an  American.     Macmillan,  1916. 

The  autobiography  of  a  Danish-American,  well-known  as  reporter  and 
social  service  worker. 

Schurz,  Carl.     Reminiscences  of  Carl  Schiirz.    2  v.     McClure, 
1907. 

The  work  consists  of  3  v.,  the  last  owing  to  the  author's  death,  having 
been  edited  by  Frederic  Bancroft  and  W.  A.  Dunning,  and  published  by 
Doubleday.  Schurz  was  a  striking  personality  in  national  affairs  for  a 
decade  before  the  Civil  War. 

Steiner,  Edward  Alfred.     From  alien  to  citizen :    the  story  of 
my  life  in  America.    Revell,  1914. 

Dr.  Steiner,  an  Austrian  Jew,  came  to  America  an  immigrant  and  for 
years  experienced  steel-mills,  mines  and  sweat  shops — but  rose  above  it 
all — having  an  unbounded  faith,  and  finally  became  professor  of  Applied 
Christianity  in  Grinnell  College,  Grinnell,  Iowa. 


ART 

Other  books  of  art  value  are  under  the  heading  Pre-Raphael- 

ITISM. 

Armstrong,  Maitland.  Day  before  yesterday:  reminiscences 
of  a  varied  life,  ed.  by  his  daughter  Margaret  Armstrong. 
Scribner,  1920. 

The  author  of  these  casual  but  delightful  reminiscences  was  a  well- 
known  figure  in  the  artistic  development  of  America,  and  he  makes  it 
easy  to  understand  and  appreciate  the  importance  of  the  movement  which 
produced  artists  like  Saint  Gaudens,  McKim,  La  Farge  and  Homer,  whose 
intimate  friend  and  companion  at  home  and  abroad  he  was.  All  of  the 
Centurians  at  the  famous  clubs  in  Forty-third  street  knew  Armstrong, 
and  all  seem  to  have  told  him  something  we  are  glad  to  have  passed 
on  to  us.  He  relates  how  he  got  Saint  Gaudens  his  first  job,  and  how  he 
hung  the  American  pictures  at  the  first  Paris  Exposition,  bringing  down 
on  his  head  the  wrath  of  the  critics  for  daring  to  "sky"  for  the  first  time 
in  history,  the  famous  Hudson  River  School.  Above  all,  Maitland  Arm- 
strong shows  us  how  a  good  artist  is  better  for  being  other  things  as  well. 

Bonheur,  Rosa.  Stanton,  Theodore,  ed.  Reminiscences  of 
Rosa  Bonheur.    Appleton,  1910. 

Cellini,  Benvenuto.  Life,  translated  by  John  Addington 
Symonds.    2  v.    Brentano,  1917. 

Chase,  William  Merritt.  Roof,  K.  M.  Life  and  art  of  Wil- 
liam Merritt  Chase.    Scribner,  1917. 

William  Chase  was  a  fine  and  picturesque  figure  in  American  art  until 
the  year  of  his  death,  1916. 


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Goya,  Francisco.     Stokes,  Hugh.     Francisco  Goya.     Putnam, 
1914. 

Goya's  art  is  most  certainly  the  reflection  of  his  personality,  and  so 
Hugh  Stokes  has  treated  it.  The  background  is  Spanish  history  and  art 
of  the  eighteenth  and  nineteenth  centuries. 

Inness,  George.     Inness,  George,  II.     Life,  art  and  letters  of 
George  Inness.     Century,  1917. 

A  lovable  person  and  a  charming  man  is  the  subject  of  this  biography 
which  never  fails  to  emphasize  the  American  artist. 

La  Farge,  John.    Cortissoz,  Royal.    John  La  Farge :  a  memoir 
and  a  study.     Houghton,  1911. 

An  intimate  and  sympathetic  memoir  by  a  friend  of  many  years  stand- 
ing with  many  of  La  Farge's  opinions  on  art  and  men  quoted  in  his  own 
words. — A.  L.  A.  Catalog,  1904-1911. 

Michelangelo.    Symonds,  J.  A.    Life  of  Michelangelo  Buonar- 
roti.   2  V.    Scribner,  1893. 

Ruskin,  John.     Praeterita :  outlines  of  scenes  and  thoughts, 
perhaps  worthy  of  memory  in  my  past  life.     Estes,  1912. 

From  Ruskin's  curiously  restrained  childhood  to  the  fulness  of  days 
on  the  continent  we  follow  him,  noting  every  change  which  environment 
registers. 

Saint  Gaudens,  Augustus.     Reminiscences :    ed.  and  amplified 
by  Homer  Saint  Gaudens.    2  v.    Century,  1913. 

No  one  is  more  closely  connected  with  the  development  of  nineteenth 
and  twentieth  century  art,  both  as  a  teacher  and  as  a  worker. 

Vedder,  Elihu.     Digressions  of  "V."     2  v.     Houghton,  1910. 

New  York,  Rome  and  Florence  with  many  reminiscences  give  the  artist 
the  background  that  makes  his  digressions  an  illuminating  autobiography. 

Velasquez.    Stevenson,  R.  A.  M.  Velasquez.   Macmillan,  1899. 

Whistler,  James  McNeill.     Pennell,  Mrs.  E.  R.  and  Joseph. 
Life  of  James  McNeill  Whistler,  2  v.     Lippincott,  1908. 

What  a  magnificent  subject  for  a  biography  Mr.  Whistler  makes, — 
none  better  since  Johnson  died.  Always  filling  the  center  of  the  stage 
by  right  of  a  brilliant  and  fantastic  personality  .  .  .  snatching  ardently  at 
friendship  and  strewing  his  path  with  enemies. — Life. 


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CHARMING  PERSONALITIES 

So  many  of  the  most  readable  and  altogether  delightful  bits 
of  life  have  their  greatest  value  in  the  dissemination  of  charm. 
Many  of  the  books  grouped  under  Radiant  Adventures  have 
similar  attractiveness. 

Anderson,  Mary,  afterward  Mme.  de  Navarro.  A  few  mem- 
ories.    Harper,  1896. 

Mary  Anderson  was  never  a  great  actress  but  always  a  charming  one. 
Her  memories  have  so  much  to  do  with  her  Hfe  in  the  social  world  that 
they  are  hardly  a  contribution  to  the  literature  of  the  stage. 

Benson,  Robert  Hugh.  Benson,  Arthur  Christopher.  Hugh: 
memoirs  of  a  brother.     Longmans,  1915. 

An  attractive  recollection  of  Robert  Hugh  Benson  by  his  brother,  of 
whom  it  is  said :  "Mr.  Benson  can  be  frank  about  personal  things  without 
ever  touching  a  false  note." — New  Statesman. 

Carroll,  Lewis.  Collingwood,  Stuart  Dodgson.  Life  and  let- 
ters of  Lewis  Carroll.     Century,  1898. 

A  biography  of  the  man  who  created  the  immortal  Alice. 

Godolphin,  Margaret,  Evelyn,  John.  Life  of  Margaret  Godol- 
phin.     Luce,  1905. 

Not  a  complete  biography,  but  so  filled  with  personality  that  it  remains 
literature. 

Hearn,  Lafcadio.  Hearn,  Setsu  (Koizumi),  (Mrs.  Lafcadio 
Hearn).  Reminiscences  of  Lafcadio  Hearn  translated 
from  the  Japanese  by  Paul  Kiyoshi  Hisada  and  Frederick 
Johnson.     Houghton,  1918. 

Jenkin,  Fleeming.  Stevenson,  Robert  Louis.  Memoir  of  Fleem- 
ing  Jenkin.     Scribner,  1905. 

"You  can  propound  nothing  but  he  has  either  a  theory  about  it  ready- 
made  or  will  have  one  instantly  on  the  stocks,  and  proceed  to  lay  its 
timbers  and  launch  it  in  your  presence." 

Jenkin,  an  interesting  scientist,  died,  unfortunately,  before  he  arrived 
at  the  fulness  of  power — and  Stevenson  goes  on  to  say:  "If  Jenkin,  after 
his  death,  shall  not  continue  to  make  new  friends  the  fault  will  be  alto- 
gether mine." 

Krasinska,  Franciszka,  Countess — Journal :  translated  from  the 
Polish  by  Kasimer  Djiekonska.     McClurg,  1896. 

Gives  with  charming  naivete  a  picturesque  account  of  high  life  in  Poland 
at  the  middle  of  the  last  (18th)  century. — Nation. 


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Lamb,  Charles.     Letters.    2  v.     Macmillan,  1889. 

They  are  not  in  the  least  like  anyone  else's.  They  defy  classification 
and  escape  analysis.  Humor  and  fancy  run  through  them  all,  but  it  is 
Lamb's  humor  and  Lamb's  fancy.  Nothing  occurs  in  them  but  the  un- 
expected.— Paul's,  Men  and  letters. 

Lucas,  Edward  Verrall.     Life  of  Charles  Lamb.    2  v. 


Putnam,  1913. 

Mr.  Lucas  gives  not  so  much  of  the  literary  genius  as  of  the  daily 
unselfish  life  of  the  man  whose  writing  was  sometimes  a  refuge  and  again 
his  "severe  step-wife."  Nothing  of  Lamb's  whimsical  spirit  and  lovable 
character  is  lost,  nor  his  friendly  intercourse  with  men  of  his  time. — 
Alice  R.  Eaton. 

Lear,  Edward.  Letters  to  Chichester  Fortescue,  Lord  Car- 
lingford  and  Frances,  Countess  Waldegrave;  edited  by 
Lady  Strachey.    Duffield,  1908. 

Lear  is  a  genuine  poet.  For  what  is  his  nonsense  except  the  poetical 
imagination  a  little  twisted  out  of  its  course?  Lear  had  the  true  poet's 
feeling  for  words — words  in  themselves  precious  and  melodious  like 
phrases  of  music;  personal  as  human  beings. — Athenceum. 

Moody,  William  Vaughn.  Some  letters  of  William  Vaughn 
Moody,  edited  with  an  introduction  by  D.  G.  Mason. 
Houghton,  1913. 

Letters  from  the  poet's  intimate  correspondence  reveal  his  delightful 
and  vigorous  personality. 

Ogilvy,  Margaret.  Barrie,  James  Matthew.  Margaret  Ogilvy, 
by  her  son.    Scribner,  1896. 

All  the  charm  that  is  Barrie  is  here. 

Stanhope,  Lady  Hester.  Hamel,  Frank.  Lady  Hester  Lucy 
Stanhope :  a  new  light  on  her  life  and  love  affairs.  Funk, 
1913. 

Lady  Hester  left  England  after  a  glorious  girlhood  to  live  in  unprece- 
dented triumph  in  Palestine  for  many  years.  The  end  of  her  life  is  a 
tragedy  bound  to  come  to  anyone  whose  nature  was  as  complexly  woven 
as  Lady  Hester's. 

CHILDHOOD  AND  YOUTH 

If  we  accept  the  technical  definition  of  biography  these  de- 
lightful things  would  be  excluded.  But  they  form  a  part  of 
autobiographical  literature  too  important  from  the  psycho- 
logical point  of  view  to  be  ignored. 

Aksakov,  Sergei  Timofeievich.  Years  of  childhood,  translated 
from  the  Russian  by  J.  D.  Duff.     Longmans,  1916. 


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Russian   schoolboy,   translated    from   the    Russian   by 

J.  D.  Dufif.    Longmans,  1917. 

There  is  much  of  the  out-of-doors  in  these  two  volumes  that  tells  of 
the  author's  early  life.  The  impressions  of  his  childhood  were  effected 
by  the  things  he  saw — and  he  saw  much  in  the  open,  since  excursions 
of  one  kind  or  another  were  a  part  of  the  family  life. 

Andersen,  Hans  Christian.  The  story  of  my  life.  Houghton, 
1871. 

In  this  the  actual  facts  are  like  morsels  of  quicksilver  in  the  hand. 
One  can  not  lay  hold  of  them. — Anna  Robeson  Burr. 

Brandes,  Georg.  Reminiscences  of  my  childhood  and  youth. 
Dufifield,  1906. 

Fascinated  even  in  childhood  with  love  of  knowledge,  he  found  himself 
wrestling,  almost  at  every  hour,  with  some  new  riddle. — Paul  Harboe. 

Burnett,  Frances  Hodgson.  The  one  I  knew  best  of  all :  a 
memory  of  the  mind  of  a  child;  illustrated  by  R.  B.  Birch. 
Scribner,  1893. 

This  ranks  with  Pierre  Loti's  "Story  of  a  child"  as  a  classic  of  reminis- 
cent autobiography. — Bessie  Graham. 

Fleming,  Marjorie.  Macbean,  Leila.  Marjorie  Fleming:  the 
story  of  Pet  Marjorie,  together  with  her  journals  and  her 
letters;  to  which  is  added  Marjorie  Fleming,  a  story  of 
child-life  fifty  years  ago  by  John  Brown,  M.  D.  Putnam, 
1904. 

She  read  history  when  six  years  old,  and  wrote  diaries  and  poems 
which  were  preserved  by  her  family.  They  show  singular  quickness, 
vivacity  and  humor. — Dictionary  of  National  Biography. 

France,  Anatole.     Aly  friend's  book.     Lane,  1905. 

All  of  the  exquisiteness  of  French  writing  is  in  this  book  which  is  con- 
tinued in  Pierre  Noziere,  and  La  petite  Pierre. 

Gorky,  Maxim.    My  childhood.    Century,  1915. 

In  the  world.     Century,  1917. 

A  lonely  imaginative  boy,  growing  up  among  disturbing  and  quarrelsome 
lower  class  Russians  was  impressed  with  the  sordidness  of  his  existence. 

Gosse,  Edmund.     Father  and  son.     Scribner,  1907. 
A  child's  individuality  develops  in  a  most  austere  Puritan  home. 

Hudson,  William  Henry.     Far  away  and  long  ago.     Button, 
1918. 
The   book   describes   "the   most   interesting  part   of   his    life,"   the  part 


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which  ended  when  he  was  fifteen.    After  that  came  much  illness  and  pain. 
— Bessie  Graham. 

Jeffries,  Richard.    Story  of  my  heart.     Longmans,  1898. 

Sheer  joy  of  living  in  a  beautiful  world  idealized  the  longings  of  the 
boy.  Edmund  Lester  Pearson  says:  "It  is  musical  prose  and  like  all 
of  his  books  one  to  be  read  in  the  open." 

Loti,  Pierre.  Story  of  a  child,  translated  by  C.  F.  Smith. 
Birchard,  1901. 

Muir,  John.  Story  of  my  childhood  and  youth.  Houghton, 
1913. 

The  delightful  naturalist  has  written  a  subjective  biography  that  should 
be  every  boy's  companion. 

Pater,  Walter.    Child  in  the  house.    Dodd,  1909. 

Renan,  Ernest.  Recollections  of  my  youth,  translated  from 
the  original  by  C.  B.  Pitman  and  revised  by  Mme.  Renan. 
Chapman,  1883.    Out  of  print. 

Since  it  was  Renan's  theory  that  autobiography  is  to  transmit  to  others 
the  theory  of  the  universe  which  the  author  carries  within  himself,  we 
have  very  little  information  here  concerning  the  outward  events  of  this 
life.  But  we  do  have  most  of  the  influences  that  brought  about  even  the 
subtlest  change  in  his  life. 

Tolstoy,  Leo,  Count.  Childhood,  boyhood  and  youth,  tr.  by 
C.  J.  Hogarth.     (Everyman's  Library)  Button,  1912. 

The  charming  autobiography  of  his  youth  is  supplemented  by  Tolstoy's 
Diaries,  that  carry  his  life  into  later  years. 


CONCEALED  AUTOBIOGRAPHIES 

This  is  a  fertile  field  and  it  would  have  been  boundless  if 
the  compiler  had  not  excluded  the  novels  which  might  come 
under  this  heading. 

Borrov/,  George.    Lavengro ;  the  scholar,  the  gypsy,  the  priest. 
Putnam,  1914. 

Borrow  had  an  unrivalled  capacity  for  dashing  truth  with  fiction  and 
brewing  fable  with  a  spice  of  fact. — Thomas  Seccombe. 

De  Quincy,  Thomas.    Confessions  of  an  English  opium  eater. 
(Everyman's  Library)  Button,  1907. 

I  contemplated  in  these  confessions  to  emblazon  the  power  of  opium — 
not  over  bodily  disease  and  pain  but  over  the  grander  and  more  shadowy 
world  of  dreams. — Author, 


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Gissing,  George.    Private  papers  of  Henry  Ryecroft.    Button, 
1906. 

Gissing's  life  was  a  struggle — how  great  an  one  we  realize  on  reading 
the  papers.  For  though  Mr.  Gissing's  book  comes  in  the  guise  of  fiction 
it  is  impossible  to  regard  it  other  than  a  spiritual  autobiography. 

Leith,  Compton.    Apologia  diffidentis.     Lane,  1912. 
An  intimate  revelation  of  a  sensitive,  shy,  reserved  nature. 


CONQUERORS 

Alexander  the  Great.  Wheeler,  Benjamin  Ide.  Alexander  the 
Great :  the  merging  of  the  East  and  the  West  in  universal 
history.     (Heroes  of  Nations)    Putnam,  1900. 

An  interpretation  of  the  significance  of  Alexander  who  was  a  great  man 
in  aim  and  achievement. — William  G.  Ross. 

Caesar,  Julius.  Froude,  James  Anthony.  Julius  Caesar. 
Scribner,  1879. 

A  delightful  book  and  a  careful  study  of  the  conversion  of  the  Roman 
republic  into  a  military  empire. — William  G.  Ross. 

Napoleon.  Rosebery,  A.  P.  P.  5th  earl  of.  Napoleon,  the 
last  phase.     Harper,  1900. 

England's  finest  tribute  to  Napoleon  is  Lord  Rosebery's  biography.  It 
is  not  a  tribute  from  all  English  people  but  it  is  one  from  the  imaginative 
sympathetic  few  that  the  author  represents. 

Sloane,  William  Milligan.   Life  of  Napoleon  Bonaparte. 


4  V.    Century,  1910. 

DEMOCRACY 

Carpenter,   Edward.     My  days  and  dreams;   being  autobio- 
graphical notes.     Scribner,  1916. 

Carpenter  read  Whitman  at  25  but  one  gathers  from  his  rather  infor- 
mal autobiography  that  from  his  earliest  recollections  he  was  on  his  way 
"toward  democracy." 

Kropotkin,  Peter  Alexeievitch,  Prince.    Memories  of  a  revolu- 
tionist.    Houghton,  1899. 

One  of  the  few  big  persons  who  stood  for  pure  Democracy. 

Whitman,  Walt.     Perry,  Bliss.     Walt  Whitman :  his  life  and 
work.     Houghton,  1906. 

No  one  is  more  difficult  to  interpret  than  Whitman.  Either  he  is 
admired  extravagantly  as  by  Traubel,  or  is  done  less  than  justice  as  in 


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this  case.  However,  this  biography  is  the  best  as  the  work  now  stands, 
but  it  is  hoped  that  soon  one  of  the  judicious  admirers  of  Whitman  will 
begin  work  on  the  biography. 

DIPLOMATIC  MEMOIRS 

The  diplomatic  interest  is  strong  in  many  of  the  books  hsted 
under  Gossipy  Memoirs. 

Bismarck,  Otto  von.  Robertson,  Charles  Grant.  Bismarck. 
(Makers  of  the  19th  century)  Holt,  1918. 

Mr.  Robertson  has  written  one  of  the  biographical  masterpieces  of 
English  historical  scholarship.  No  one  can  fail  to  be  impressed  by  the 
supreme  fairness  of  Mr.  Robertson's  portrait. — Harold  J.  Laski  in  New 
Republic. 

Foster,  John  Watson.  Diplomatic  memoirs.  2  v.  Houghton, 
1909. 

This  diplomat's  life  is  revealed  with  no  light  touch  but  his  revelations 
have  a  value  in  the  history  of  American  diplomacy. 

Gallatin,  James,  Diary  of  James  Gallatin,  secretary  to  Albert 
Gallatin,  a  great  peacemaker.     1813-1827.     Scribner,  1916. 

A  very  critical  period  in  diplomatic  history  is  covered  by  this  debonair 
young  secretary  and  his  observations  are  quite  accurate  as  well  as  spirited. 

Metternich,  Prince.  Sandeman,  George  A.  C.  Metternich. 
New  York.    Brentano,  1911. 

Stein,  freiherr  von.  Seeley,  John  Robert.  Life  and  times  of 
Stein  or  Germany  and  Prussia  in  the  Napoleonic  age.  3  v. 
Putnam,  1904. 

ECONOMIC  PROBLEMS 

There  are  also  many  economic  problems  discussed  in  the  bi- 
ographies under  Social  Service. 

Fagan,  James  Octavius.  Autobiography  of  an  individualist. 
Houghton,  1912. 

After  years  of  adventure  in  South  America  and  South  Africa  Mr. 
Fagan  came  to  the  United  States  where  he  has  been  connected  with  promi- 
nent railway  systems. 

Place,  Francis.  Wallas,  Graham.  Life  of  Francis  Place. 
Knopf,  1919. 

The  tailor  of  Charing  Cross  was  one  of  the  great  figures  in  politics 
in  Victorian  England.     His  social  theories  were  highly  respected  by  Bent- 


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ham,  Mill  and  Cobden.  He  preserved  them  in  volumes  of  letters  and  many 
manuscripts  and  clippings  and  from  these  Mr.  Wallas  has  evolved  the 
biography  that  has  from  1898  to  1919  passed  through  three  editions. 

Willard,  Josiah  Flynt.    My  life  by  Josiah  Flynt,  pseud.    Out- 
ing, 1908. 

Vagrancy  was  so  alluring  that  much  of  Willard's  life  was  devoted  to  it. 
He  made  some  study  of  economic  problems,  however,  and  gave  them  to 
the  world  in  "Tramping  with  tramps"  and  "The  world  of  graft." 

EDUCATION 

Here  theories  are  discussed  and  methods  criticized  in  no 
technical  way.  From  these  ideas  one  may  perhaps  at  last  de- 
termine "what  it  is  to  be  educated." 

Adams,  Henry,     The  education  of  Henry  Adams:  an  auto- 
biography.    Houghton,  1918. 

Adams  has  none  of  that  anecdotal  inconsequentiality  which  is  a  bad 
tradition  in  English  recollections.  He  saved  himself  from  mere  recol- 
lections by  taking  the  world  as  an  educator  and  himself  as  an  experiment 
in  education.  His  two  big  books  were  contrasted  as  Mont-Sant-Micliel 
and  Chartres :  a  study  of  thirteenth  century  unity,  and  the  Education 
of  Henry  Adams:  a  study  of  twentieth  century  multiplicity.  The  stress 
of  multiplicity  was  all  the  more  important  because  he  considered  himself 
eighteenth  century  to  start  with,  and  had  in  fact  the  unity  of  simple 
Americanism  at  the  beginning.  There  is  no  single  dullness  in  505  large 
pages. — Francis  Hackett. 

Arnold,  Thomas.    Stanley,  Arthur  Penrhyn.     Life  of  Thomas 
Arnold.    Scribner,  1898. 

A  remarkably  sympathetic  yet  discriminating  life  of  the  man  who 
changed  the  face  of  education  all  through  the  public  schools  of  England, 
in  the  first  half  of  the  nineteenth  century,  "the  champion  alike  of  reverent 
faith  and  independent  thought,"  "the  hero  of  schoolmasters" — by  a  devoted 
Rugby  pupil  not  less  famous  than  his  master.  Dr.  Arnold  was  one  of 
the  strongest  moral  and  religious  forces  of  his  time  and  this  biography 
shows  him  so  in  thought  and  action. — Robert  R.  Henderson. 

Mill,  John  Stuart.    Autobiography.    Holt,  1904. 

A  character  that  was  warped  by  none  of  the  more  unintelligent  attitudes 
of  the  human  mind. — John  Morley. 

Palmer,  Alice  Freeman.    Palmer,  George  Herbert.    The  life  of 
Alice  Freeman  Palmer.     Houghton,  1908. 

Both  Mrs.  Palmer  and  her  husband  were  so  fascinated  with  education 
and  its  effect  on  life  that  with  no  effort  this  book  is  the  exponent  of 
their  thought. 

Rousseau,  Jean  Jacques.    Confessions.    2  v.    Lippincott,  1905. 

He  was  able  to  watch  and  to  cast  into  words  the  play  of  life  upon  his 
vibrating,  hypersensitive  nerves,  as  few  others  have  been  able  to  do,  and 


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the  value  of  the  Confessions  deepens  with  the  advance  of  psychology. — 
Anna  Robeson  Burr. 

Smith,   Goldwin.     Reminiscences.     Ed.  by  Arnold   Haultain, 
Macmillan,  1910. 

The  nineteenth  century  knew  no  greater  educator  in  England,  Canada 
or  United  States. 

Spencer,  Herbert.     Autobiography.     2  v.     Appleton,  1904. 

Spencer  exhibits  a  life,  for  perhaps  the  first  time  in  history,  entirely 
organized  on  a  national  and  scientific  basis.  Each  separate  action  is 
referred  to  general  laws.  He  turns  back  upon  action  directed  towards 
a  certain  end  to  examine  with  an  almost  pathetic  refinement  whether  as 
a  matter  of  fact  the  end  has  been  attained. — Contemporary  Review. 


ENGLISH  COUNTRY  LIFE 

Carpenter,  William  Boyd.    Some  pages  of  my  life.     Scribner, 
1911. 

Further  pages  from  my  life.     Scribner,  1917. 

The  ways  of  man,  the  shortcomings  of  clergymen,  the  life  of  a  rural 
vicarage  and  the  personalities  of  several  English  leaders  are  revealed  in 
these  volumes. 


Coke,  Thomas  William.  Stirling,  A.  M.  W.  Coke  of  Norfolk 
and  his  friends :  the  life  of  Thomas  William  Coke,  first 
earl  of  Leicester  of  Holcome.     Lane,  1912. 

Thomas  William  Coke  was  one  of  the  first  scientific  agriculturists.  He 
loved  the  land  and  all  that  pertained  to  it. 

Edgeworth,  Maria.  Lawless,  Emily.  Maria  Edgeworth. 
(English  Men  of  Letters)   Macmillan,  1904. 

A  beautiful  Irish  life  and  a  charming  woman  add  to  the  literary  value 
of  this  sketch. 

ENGLISH  PUBLIC  LIFE 

The  list  under  Mid-Victorians  also  includes  men  and  women 
who  were  influential  in  English  public  life. 

Bancroft,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  (Davis).  Letters  from  England, 
1846-1849.    Scribner,  1904. 

While  George  Bancroft  was  minister  to  England  these  letters  were  writ- 
ten by  his  wife  who  accompanied  him.  "She  saw  everything  with  Ameri- 
can eyes." — Dial. 


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Bright,  John.  Trevelyan,  G.  M.  Life  of  John  Bright.  Hough- 
ton, 1913. 

England's  industrial  life  and  the  tremendous  question  of  its  Victorian 
era  could  have  no  finer  exponent  than  John  Bright  whom  every  one 
respected  and  many  loved. 

Burney,  Frances  (Mme.  D'Arblay).  Diary  and  letters  (1778- 
1840)  with  notes  by  W.  C.  Ward  and  prefaced  by  Lord 
Macaulay's  essay.     3  v.     Warne. 

Frances  Burney  wrote  a  diary  almost  from  the  cradle  to  the  grave. 
She  met  all  sorts  of  people  and  portrayed  all  sorts  from  the  top  of  society 
to  the  bottom.  And  through  this  infinite  diversity  of  spiritual  contact, 
she  carried  an  eagle  eye,  an  untiring  pen  and  a  singularly  amiable  dis- 
position.— Gamaliel  Bradford. 

Coke,  Thomas  William.  Stirling,  A.  M.  W.  Coke  of  Norfolk 
and  his  friends:  the  life  of  Thomas  William  Coke,  first 
earl  of  Leicester  of  Holcome.     Lane,  1912. 

Legislation  that  referred  to  land  and  labor  particularly  interested  Coke 
during  his  public  life — but  even  though  he  was  a  politician,  he  never,  as 
he  said,  "received  a  farthing  of  the  public  money — my  hands  are  clean." 

Cornwallis-West,  Mrs.  Jennie  (Jerome).  The  reminiscences 
of  Lady  Randolph  Churchill.     Century,  1908. 

From  1869-1900  these  reminiscences  cover  the  interesting  diplomatic, 
political  and  social  life  of  England  and  the  Continent. 

Disraeli,  Benjamin.  Monypenny,  W.  F.  and  Buckle,  G.  E. 
The  life  of  Benjamin  Disraeli,  earl  of  Beaconfield.  6  v. 
Macmillan,  1910-1920. 

The  genius  of  Disraeli  was  a  world-genius  and  is  not  to  be  measured 
by  anything  achieved  within  the  boundaries  of  a  small  island.  England 
in  his  eyes  was  always  something  larger  than  the  forty  countries  of  the 
geography  books.  He  believed  in  race  and  for  him  England  was  the 
English  race  all  over  the  world.  At  the  end  of  his  last  volume  Mr.  Buckle 
prints  an  extremely  interesting  and  subtle  study  of  Disraeli  which  was 
found  among  Mr.  Monypenny's  papers.  Mr.  Monypenny  begins  it  by  say- 
ing, "I  have  sometimes  been  asked  if  my  book  would  at  last  dispel  the 
mystery  that  surrounds  Disraeli,  and  my  answer  has  invariably  been  that 
unless  the  mystery  remained  when  I  had  finished  my  labors,  I  should 
have  failed  in  my  task  of  portraiture;  for  mystery  was  the  essence  of  the 
man."    That  is  a  profound  remark. — London  Times. 

Evelyn,  John.  Diary  and  correspondence.  2  v.  (Everyman's 
Library)  Dutton,  1907. 

This  diarist  had  not  the  winning  personality  of  Pepys  but  he  covered 
a  longer  period  in  a  more  scholarly  way. 


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Fox,  Charles  James.     Trevelyan,  George  Oliver.     Early  his- 
tory of  Charles  James  Fox.    Harper,  1904. 

There  is  no  better  picture  of  the  transition  from  old  to  new  methods 
of  statesmanship  and  no  more  fascinating  character  in  the  transition  than 
Fox. 

Gladstone,  William  Ewart.     Morley,  John.     Life  of  William 
Ewart  Gladstone.    3  v.     Macmillan,  1903. 

A  master-piece  of  historical  writing  in  which  the  interest  is  absorbing, 
the  authority  indisputable,  and  the  skill  consummate. 

Labouchere,    Henry.     Thorold,    A.    L.      Life    of   Henry    La- 
bouchere.      Putnam,   1913. 

This  is  a  book  of  varied  and  sustained  interest,  but  somehow  fails  to 
be  completel}-  satisfying.  This  fact,  however,  may  be  a  subtle  recommen- 
dation. A  life  that  was  in  some  senses  '"manque"  does  not  go  ill  with  a 
biography  that  here  and  there  is  broken  and  disappointing.  The  ownership 
of  "Truth"  which  Labouchere  took  up  for  amusement  brought  him  fame 
and  much  money,  which  he  did  not  need,  making  the  experience  more 
piquant.  His  best  labor  he  long  gave  to  politics.  His  highest  ambitions 
were  frustrated  yet  Labouchere  was  not  embittered. — Nation. 

Macaulay,    Thomas    Babington.      Trevelyan,    George    Oliver. 
Life  and  letters  of  Lord  Macaulay.     2  v.     Harper,  1876. 

Trevelyan  himself  says,  "Macaulay's  was  one  of  the  happiest  lives  it 
has  ever  fallen  to  the  lot  of  a  biographer  to  record." 

McCarthy,  Justin.    Reminiscences.    2  v.    Harper,  1899. 

An  Irishman's  story.    Macmillan,  1904. 

More,  Sir  Thomas.    Roper,  William.  Sir  Thomas  More.   Luce, 
1905. 

Sometime  before  the  close  of  Mary's  reign  in  1558,  William  Roper,  the 
son-in-law  of  Sir  Thomas  More,  sat  down  to  commit  to  writing  what 
he  could  remember  and  gather  from  friends  in  regard  to  the  distinguished 
and  unfortunate  English  Chancellor.  The  narrative  is  brief  and  incom- 
plete and  of  course  contains  inaccuracies;  yet  the  stately  simplicity  of 
the  style,  the  pathetic  reserve  of  the  writer  and  the  atmosphere  of  truth 
pervading  all,  mark  it  as  a  work  of  great  value. — Waldo  H.  Dunn. 

Morley,  John.     Recollections.    2  v.     Macmillan,  1917. 

The  Recollections  are  a  modest,  temperate  and  frank  history  of  a  great 
and  liberal  mind  in  action,  upon  great  subjects  and  events.  The  final 
chapter,  "A  word  of  Epilogue,"  is  one  of  poetic  wistfulness  and  restrained 
motion  in  classic  prose. — Robert  R.  Henderson. 

Pepys,  Samuel.    Diary  and  correspondence.    4  v.    Macmillan, 
1889-1897. 

Perpetually  the  most  amusing  of  gossips;  and  of  all  who  have  gossiped 
about  themselves  and  their  times  probably  the  only  one  who  tells  the  truth. 


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Raleigh,  Sir  Walter.  Selincourt,  Hugh  de.  Great  Raleigh. 
Putnam,  1908. 

Elizabethan  England  and  this  admirable  man  have  no  better  repre- 
sentative than  in  this  book. 

EVOLUTION 

Darwin,  Charles  R.     Life  and  letters.     2  v.     Appleton,  1888. 
As  much  the  history  of  a  great  idea  as  an  autobiography. 

Fiske,  John.  Clark,  John  Spencer.  Life  and  letters  of  John 
Fiske.    2  v.    Houghton,  1917. 

No  American  of  his  generation  thought  more  valuably  than  Fiske  and 
none  wrote  more  clearly  on  the  subject  of  evolution  than  he. 

Huxley,  Thomas  Henry.  Huxley,  Leonard.  Life  and  letters 
of  Thomas  Henry  Huxley  by  his  son  Leonard  Huxley. 
2  V.    Macmillan,  1900. 

No  points  in  Huxley's  theories  are  left  in  the  dark  and  the  Romanes 
lecture  of  1893  is  fully  discussed. 

Wallace,  Alfred  Russell.    My  life.    2  v.    Dodd,  1905. 

FRENCH  LIFE 

Eugenie,  Empress  of  the  French.  Fleury,  comte.  IMemoirs  of 
the  Empress  Eugenie.     2  v.     Appleton,  1920. 

The  Second  Empire  seems  far  aw^ay  but  only  yesterday  the  most  bril- 
liant figure  in  that  Empire  lived.  Her  fascinating  personality,  however, 
is  lost  in  the  history  of  that  1870  period  when  she  was  willing  to  lose  her 
personality  in  the  great  game  of  Empires. 

Gallatin,  James.  Diary  of  James  Gallatin,  secretary  to  Albert 
Gallatin,  a  great  peace  maker,  1813-1827.     Scribner,  1916. 

This  delightful  diary  was  first  published  in  1914.  It  covers  a  short 
period  but  it  reveals  personality  completely. 

Mistral,  Frederic.  Memoirs ;  tr.  by  C.  E.  Maude.  Doubleday, 
1907. 

Provengal  is  a  delightful  place  and  Mistral,  the  poet  of  the  province, 
a  delightful  man  whose  years  from  1830-1860  are  given  us  in  this  narra- 
tive. 

Napoleon.  Hudson,  William  Henry.  The  Man  Napoleon. 
Crowell,  1914. 

History  only  as  far  as  it  is  essential  is  here — but  the  man  is  vivid. 


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Sevigne,  marquise  de.     Aldis,  Janet.     Queen  of  letter  writers, 
Marquise  de  Sevigne.    Putnam,  1907. 

This  book  has  for  some  time  been  out  of  print  but  it  may  be  found  in 
most  public  libraries  so  it  has  been  included.  Louis  XIV's  period  has 
no  more  brilliant  representative  than  Mme.  Sevigne. 

Villon,  Frangois.    Stacpoole,  H.  de  Vere,    Villon,  his  life  and 
times.     Putnam,  1917. 

This  is  France  of  Villon's  day  and  Villon — without  destroying  the 
charm  of  enshrouding  mystery. 

Voltaire.     Tallentyre,  S.  G.     Life  of  Voltaire.     Smith,  Elder 
&Co.    1904. 

There  is  nothing  of  the  works  of  Voltaire  in  this  biography  but  this 
is  the  man  and  his  social  environment  making  a  vivid  and  picturesque 
study. 

FRIENDSHIPS 

Hay,  John.    Thayer,  William  Roscoe.    The  life  and  letters  of 
John  Hay.    2  v.    Houghton,  1915. 

The  diplomat,  the  charming  friend  and  gifted  author,  but  little  of  the 
Secretary  of  State,  appears  in  this  which  is  a  personal  biography — not  a 
record  of  the  times. 

Meredith,  George.     Letters  collected  and  edited  by  his  son. 
2  V.    Scribner,  1912. 

No  one  had  a  more  poignant  feeling  for  his  friends  who  were  in  dis- 
tress than  Meredith.  This  is  one  of  the  great  attributes  that  his  letters 
reveal  to  us. 

Saint  Gaudens,  Augustus.     Reminiscences :  ed.  and  amplified 
by  Homer  Saint  Gaudens.    2  v.     Century,  1913. 

The  art  of  making  and  keeping  friends  was  one  of  the  many  arts  that 
Saint  Gaudens  had  as  a  gift  of  nature. 

Stevenson,  Robert  Louis.     Letters  to  his  family  and  friends. 
2  V.     Scribner,  1901. 

Beyond  biographic  interest — there  is  beauty  of  description — quaint  hu- 
mor— wisdom — criticism — all  the  heart  of  the  man. 


GOSSIPY  MEMOIRS 

Blaine,  Mrs.  Harriet  Bailey.    Letters  of  Mrs.  James  G.  Blaine, 
edited  by  Harriet  Blaine  Beale.     Duffield,  1908. 

The  letters  written  between  1869  and  1889  give  a  vivid  idea  of  Wash- 
ington life  as  well  as  an  intimate  picture  of  the  wife  of  an  official,  a  sin- 
cere woman  who  thoroughly  lived. 


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Fraser,  Mrs.  Mary  Crawford,  Diplomatist's  wife  in  many 
lands.    Dodd,  1918. 

Reminiscences  of  a  diplomatist's  wife.     Dodd,  1912. 

Well  written  are  these  memoirs  that  touch  almost  every  country  in 
Europe  and  the  Orient  and  finally  add  glorious  days  in  Francis  Marion 
Crawford's  villa  in  Italy. 

Gramont,  Philibert,  comte  de.  Hamilton,  Anthony,  Count. 
Memoirs  of  Count  Gramont,  tr.  by  Abel  Boyer;  rev.  and 
ed.  by  Sir  Walter  Scott.     Dutton,  1905. 

French  and  English  fashionable  life  of  the  17th  century  He  before  us. 

Hobson,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Kimball.  Recollections  of  a  happy 
life.    Putnam,  1916. 

To  live  a  long  life  happily  is  a  rare  and  impressive  achievement.  In 
1850  Elizabeth  Kimball  sailed  around  Cape  Horn.  Later  she  married 
and  lived  in  Peru.  When  she  returned  to  the  United  States,  Mrs.  Hobson 
was  active  as  a  moving  force  for  good. 

Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich,  Eleanor  Hulda  (Calhoun),  Prin- 
cess.   Pleasures  and  palaces;  memoirs.    Century,  1915. 

"     After  a  successful  career  as  an  actress  in  Europe,  Miss  Calhoun  married 
a  Serbian  prince  and  devoted  herself  to  the  Serbian  people. 

Pepys,  Samuel.  Diary  and  correspondence.  4  v.  Macmillan, 
1889-1897. 

The  eupeptic  Pepys !  To  read  him  is  a  perpetual  tonic,  a  reminder  of 
the  endless  exuberance,  comedy  and  curiosity  of  human  affairs.  Pepys' 
Diary  is  the  most  exhilarating  love  story  ever  written — the  story  of  his 
zealous,  jocund,  inquisitive  love  of  life.  But — no  woman  should  be  al- 
lowed to  read  it.  He  gives  away  too  many  of  the  secrets  of  our  sex. — 
Christopher  Morley. 

St.  Helier,  Mary  (Stewart-Mackenzie)  Jeune,  Baroness.  Mem- 
oirs of  fifty  years.     Long-mans,  1909. 

From  the  Duke  of  Wellington  through  Queen  Victoria's  reign  we  follow 
a  pleasant  interpretation  of  the  life  of  a  gentlewoman  and  her  friends — 
many  distinguished  people. 

Sladen,  Douglas.    Twenty  years  of  my  life.    Dutton,  1915. 

A  journalist  and  an  artist,  the  author  knew  all  of  the  most  entertaining 
and  celebrated  people — but  he  weaves  more  than  gossip  into  the  delightful 
journal. 

Taft,  Helen  Herron.  Recollections  of  full  years  by  Mrs.  Wil- 
liam H.  Taft.     Dodd,  1914. 

The  Tafts  spent  all  but  one  of  the  first  twenty-five  years  of  their  married 
life  in   public    service.     Delightful   details   of    men   and   events   connected 
,  with  these  years  fill  Mrs.  Taf  t's  memoirs. 


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Waddington,  Mrs.  Mary  A.  (King).  Italian  letters  of  a  diplo- 
mat's Avife.     1880-1904.     Scribner,  1905. 

Letters  of  a  diplomat's  wife,  1883-1900.    Scribner,  1903. 

The  American  born  wife  of  a  French  diplomat  and  ambassador  has  a 
life  crowded  with  vivid  impressions  and  interesting  experiences  in  Mos- 
cow, Rome  and  London. 

GREAT  WAR— 1914 

The  Great  War,  1914-1918,  revealed  delicate  and  delightful 
personalities  through  letters  to  the  families  of  the  men  in 
service.  Some  of  these  men  rightfully  belong  to  other  inter- 
ests as  well,  but  since  the  war  has  made  them  known  to  us 
it  seems  fitting  that  they  should  be  grouped  with  it, 

Adams,  Briggs  Kilburn.  American  Spirit,  with  a  preface  by 
Arthur  Stanwood  Pier.     Atlantic  monthly  press,  1919. 

The  writer  of  these  letters  was  in  France  most  of  the  time  from  the 
summer  of  1916  until  he  was  killed  in  March,  1918.  He  served  as  an 
ambulance  driver  and  later  in  aviation.  "(They  are)  not  only  gallant  and 
beautiful  in  their  feeling  but  singularly  elevated  in  their  style,  as  though 
his  new  experience  had  lifted  him  into  new  levels  of  expression  and  given 
to  his  language  something  of  the  clearness  and  freshness  of  the  upper  air." 
— Francis  G.  Peabody. 

Allier,  Roger.  Allier,  Raoul  Scipion  Philippe  &  Allier,  Mrs. 
Raoul.    Roger  Allier,  by  his  parents.    Assoc,  press,  1919. 

Like  thousands  of  others,  Roger  Allier  gave  up  his  life  for  France. 
Particularly  one  feels  here  the  great  value  of  the  training  for  the  Chasseurs 
Alpins,  Allier's  organization.  Beyond  anything,  it  was  a  moral  training 
for  the  conflict  which  he  entered. 

Brooke,  Rupert.  Marsh,  Edward  Howard.  Rupert  Brooke: 
a  memoir.     Lane,  1918. 

Youth  and  poetry  are  the  links  binding  the  children  of  the  world  to 
come  to  the  grandsires  of  the  world  that  was.  War  will  smash,  pulverize, 
sweep  into  the  dust-bins  of  eternity  the  whole  fabric  of  the  old  world ; 
therefore  the  first  born  in  intellect  must  die.  Is  that  the  reading  of  the 
riddle? — Sir  Ian  Hamilton. 

Chapin,  Harold.  Letters  of  a  dramatist,  being  the  letters  of 
Harold  Chapin,  American  citizen  who  died  for  England 
at  Loos,  on  September  26.  1915.     Lane,  1916. 

Chapman,  Victor  Emanuel.  1890-1916.  Victor  Chapman's  let- 
ters from  France — with  memoirs  by  John  Jay  Chapman. 
Macmillan,  1917. 

His  father's  memoirs  preceding  Victor  Chapman's  letters  completes  the 
boy's  life.     "Great  hearted,  loj'al,  reckless  for  a  friend;  not  counting  risks, 


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cool  headed,  clear  of  sight,  he  gave  himself  to  serve  a  lofty  end." — John 
Heard,  jr. 

Guynemer,  Georges.  Bordeaux,  Henry.  Georges  Guynemer, 
knight  of  the  air;  tr.  from  the  French  by  Louise  Morgan 
Sill,  with  an  introduction  by  Theodore  Roosevelt.  Yale, 
1918. 

"The  strange  youth  who  flew  into  fame  and  then  flew  out  of  life." 

Kilmer,  Joyce.  Joyce  Kilmer  ed.  with  a  memoir  by  Robert 
Cortes  Holliday.     3  v.     Doran,  1918. 

Prince,  Norman.  Babbitt,  George  Franklin.  Norman  Prince 
— a  volunteer  who  died  for  the  same  cause  he  loved. 
Houghton,  1918. 

A  member  of  the  Lafayette  flying  squadron,  who  was  killed  in  1916. 

LITERARY  GENIUS 

The  study  of  genius  is  a  fascinating  subtopic  of  psychology 
which  can  best  be  studied  in  biographies  and  autobiographies  of 
the  "creators."     Other  examples  will  be  found  under  Poetry. 

Aldrich,  Thomas  Bailey.  Greenslet,  Ferris.  Life  of  Thomas 
Bailey  Aldrich.     Houghton,  1908. 

Charm  and  reticence  are  necessary  in  writing  of  the  author  who  has 
both  qualities. 

Bronte,  Charlotte.  Gaskell,  E.  C.  Life  of  Charlotte  Bronte, 
with  an  introduction  by  Clement  Shorter.  Haworth  ed., 
Harper,  1900. 

As  one  reads  of  Keighley  and  Haworth  and  the  Bronte  family  there  is 
the  feeling  that  this  life  of  Charlotte  Bronte  is  one  of  her  own  stories. 

Butler,  Samuel.  Jones,  Henry  Festing.  The  life  of  Samuel 
Butler.    2  v.    Macmillan,  1919. 

If  Butler  had  said  nothing  else  his  "Way  of  all  flesh"  would  have  made 
him  worth  listening  to.  There  is  no  more  original  figure  in  English  liter- 
ature than  Butler. 

Byron,  Lord.  Moore,  Thomas.  Letters  and  journals  of  Lord 
Byron  with  notices  of  his  life.    6  v.     Scribner. 

Moore  knew,  being  a  man  of  letters,  that  what  was  wanted  was  precisely 
this — to  let  Byron  speak  for  himself.     There  had  been  endless  speaking 

God's  great  gift  of  speech  abused 
Made  the  memory  confused 

of  almost  everybody  on  the  subject.  But  it  may  be  safely  said  that  nothing 
that  can  ever  come  out  will  be  incompatible  with  Lord  Byron  made  known 
to  us  by  Moore. — George  Saintsbury. 


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Carlyle,  Thomas.    Thomas  Carlyle,  a  history  of  the  first  forty 
years  of  his  life ;  ed.  by  J.  A.  Froude.    2  v.    Scribner,  1882. 

Thomas  Carlyle,  a  history  of  his  life  in  London;  ed.  by 


J.  A.  Froude.    2  v.     Scribner,  1884. 

To  one  who  reads  with  open  unprejudiced  mind,  the  story  of  Carlyle's 
life  unrolls  itself  with  a  power  not  unlike  that  of  the  greatest  Greek 
dramas.  We  see  before  our  very  eyes  the  pilgrimage  of  Carlyle  from 
birth  to  death.  We  see  his  Titanic  struggle  with  life;  we  see  him  go 
down  into  the  darkening  shadows.  One  feels  oneself  growing  old  with 
the  hero,  as  one  proceeds  to  the  end  of  the  volumes. — Waldo  H.  Dunn. 

Dickens,  Charles.  Forster,  John.  Life  of  Charles  Dickens. 
2  V.    Gadshill  ed.    Scribner. 

Eliot,  George.  Cross,  J.  W.  George  Eliot's  life  as  related  in 
her  letters  and  journals  arranged  and  edited  by  her  hus- 
band, J.  W.  Cross.    3  V.    Harper,  1885. 

George  Eliot  led  the  life  of  a  studious  recluse  with  none  of  the  variety 
and  motion  and  the  large  communication  with  the  outer  world. 

Gibbon,  Edward.  Autobiography.  Everyman's  Library  ed. 
Dutton,  19n. 

Memoirs  edited  by  Henry  Morley.    Dutton,  1914. 

When  in  imagination  we  take  that  famous  turn  with  Gibbon  upon  that 
terrace  at  Lausanne  beneath  the  covered  walk  of  acacias,  gaze  upon  the 
serene  moon  and  the  silent  lake  and  hear  him  soliloquize  upon  the  con- 
clusion of  the  "Decline  and  fall"  we  feel  that  we  are  in  the  presence  of 
a  man  who  has  the  right  to  his  complacency. — Leslie  Stephen. 

Goldsmith,  Oliver.  Irving,  Washington.  Oliver  Goldsmith. 
2  V.    Putnam,  1897. 

One  of  the  best  biographies  in  the  whole  range  of  English  literature. — 
C.  F.  Richardson. 

Johnson,  Samuel.  Boswell,  James.  Life  of  Samuel  Johnson, 
LL.  D.;  ed.  by  George  Birbeck  Hill.    6  v.     Harper,  1891. 

Boswell's  book  is  an  arch  of  triumph,  through  which,  as  we  read,  we  see 
his  hero  passing  into  eternal  fame.  .  .  . — Augustine  Birrell. 

Leland,  Charles  Godfrey.  Pennell,  Elizabeth  Robins.  Charles 
Godfrey  Leland :  a  biography.    2  v.    Houghton,  1906. 

This  is  the  life  of  a  man  who  would  have  been  interesting  because  of 
his  many  tastes — but  the  fact  that  he  was  responsible  for  the  Hans  Breit- 
man  poems  gives  him  a  unique  place  in  our  literary  history. 


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Lowell,  James  Russell.  Letters  (1827-1891);  ed.  by  C.  E. 
Norton.     2  v.     Harper,  1894. 

Moore,  George.     Hail  and  farewell.     3  v.    Appleton,  1911. 

The  reader  might  fling  down  these  three  volumes,  perhaps  amused  and 
then  ashamed  of  being  amused  at  the  scandalous  chronicler  of  others' 
lives,  sick  of  a  surfeit  of  ignoble  meditations  and  malicious  attributions; 
and  then,  again,  turning  to  a  new  page,  a  new  charm  is  felt,  malice  is 
forgot  and  the  reader  gains  a  new  pleasure  for  memory. — London  Mercttry. 

Norton,  Charles  Eliot.     Letters.    2  v.     Houghton,  1913. 

Poe,  Edgar  Allan.  Woodberry,  George  Edward.  Life  of 
Edgar  Allan  Poe;  including  his  correspondence  with  men 
of  letters.     2  v.     Houghton,  1909. 

This  is  an  enlarged  edition  of  the  biography  that  appeared  in  1885  in 
the  American  men  of  letters  series.  Much  new  and  interesting  material 
makes  Poe  more  fascinating  than  ever. 

Sand,  George.  History  of  my  life.  Roberts,  1893.  Out  of 
print. 

Of  whatever  lacunae  we  may  justly  accuse  George  Sand,  5Tt  the  "Story 
of  my  life"  remains  to  us  the  most  complete,  striking  and  finished  pres- 
entation of  the  development  and  progress  of  what  we  term  creative 
imagination. — Anna  Robeson  Burr. 

Scott,  Sir  Walter.  Lockhard,  John  Gibson.  Memoirs  of  the 
life  of  Sir  Walter  Scott.    5  v.    Houghton,  1902. 

We  have  the  full  portrait  of  the  man.  The  defects  are  blazoned  by 
the  intense  light  of  genius  and  goodness  and  thus  displayed,  how  slight 
they  are. — Andrew  Lang. 

Shakespeare,  William.  Lee,  Sidney.  Life  of  Shakespeare. 
Macmillan,  1916. 

Sidney  Lee  was  knighted  for  the  work  he  did  in  Shakespearean  research. 
He  says,  "I  can  not  promise  my  readers  any  startling  revelations.  But  my 
researches  have  enabled  me  to  remove  some  ambiguities  which  puzzled 
my  predecessors,  and  to  throw  light  on  one  or  two  topics  that  have  hith- 
erto obscured  the  course  of  Shakespeare's  career." — Preface. 

Sharp,  William.  Sharp,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  A.  William  Sharp. 
(Fiona  McCleod)  ;  a  memoir.    Duffield,  1910. 

Letters  from  the  most  important  and  the  most  interesting  painters  and 
writers  of  the  past  quarter  of  a  century  form  a  part  of  this  exceptional 
memoir  of  a  man  whose  personality  was  at  times  almost  bewildering. 

Stevenson,  Robert  Louis.  Balfour,  Graham.  Life  of  Robert 
Louis  Stevenson.     Scribner,   1901. 


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Abridged  ed.    Scribner,  1911. 


This  life,  by  his  cousin,  is  considered  the  authoritative  life  of  Stevenson. 
The  letters  under  the  heading  FRIENDSHIP  are  an  essential  part  of  his 
biography. 

Swinburne,  Algernon  Charles.     Gosse,  Edmund.     The  life  of 
Algernon  Charles  Swinburne.    Macmillan,  1917. 

This  was  the  first  Swinburne  biography  and  it  is  sympathetically  written 
by  a  friend. 

Tennyson,  Alfred.    Tennyson,  H.  T.    Alfred,  Lord  Tennyson, 
a  memoir.    2  v.    Macmillan,  1897. 

A  record  so  full  as  perhaps  has  never  been  given  to  the  world  of  the 
growth  and  progress  of  the  mind  of  a  great  imaginative  artist. — Edmund 
Gosse. 

Trollope,  Anthony.    Autobiography.    Harper,  1883. 

"The  publication  of  Anthony  Trollope's  autobiography  in  some  degree 
accounts  for  the  neglect  into  which  he  and  his  works  fell  so  soon  after 
his  death.  I  should  like  to  believe  it,  for  such  a  fact  would  be,  from 
one  point  of  view,  a  credit  to  'the  great  big  stupid  public,' "  so  says  George 
Gissing  in  the  Private  papers  of  Henry  Ryecroft.  Trollope  makes  many 
revealing  statements  that  provoke  discussions  as  to  methods  of  work 
among  authors — and  this  is   Henry  Ryecroft's  quarrel. 

Twain,  Mark.    Paine,  Albert  Bigelow.    Mark  Twain,  a  biogra- 
phy.   3  V.    Harper,  1912. 

The  authorized  life  written  by  an  intimate  friend.  The  work  has  been 
done  with  one  single  aim — to  present  the  great  figure  in  its  many-sided 
activity  and  to  keep  that  picturesque  personality  constantly  before  the 
reader. — William  Lyon  Phelps. 

Ward,  Mrs.  Humphry.     A  writer's  recollections.     2  v.     Har- 
per, 1918. 

You  have  now,  by  means  of  these  assembled  re-actions  of  Mrs.  Ward 
to  her  contemporaneous  literary  environment,  a  rather  vivid  picture  of 
Mrs.  Ward's  mind.  We  shall  not  attempt  to  characterize  the  mind  for 
it  reveals  itself  with  crystal  clarity  in  all  its  manifestations. — Lawrence 
Gilman. 

LONDON 
James,  Henry.     Notes  of  a  son  and  brother.     Scribner,  1914. 

Middle  years.     Scribner,  1917. 

These  autobiographical  sketches  seem  written  to  picture  the  author's 
adored  London. 


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Markino,  Yoshio.    A  Japanese  artist  in  London.    Jacobs,  1910. 

Many  impressions  of  London  are  given  in  this  story  of  a  struggle  for 
recognition, 

Martineau,  Harriet,  Autobiography;  ed.  by  Mrs.  M.  W.  Chap- 
man.    2  V,     Houghton,  1877. 

Among  the  innumerable  pictures  of  London  literary  society,  Miss  Mar- 
tineau's  series  of  portraits  will  stand  unrivalled.— 77!t»»ia.y  Wentivorth  Hig- 
ginson. 

MID-VICTORIANS 

The  lives  of  other  authors  of  this  period  will  be  found  under 
Literary  Genius. 

Arnold,  Matthew.  Letters,  1848-1888,  ed.  by  G.  W.  E.  Russell. 
Macmillan,  1900. 

In  these  letters  a  more  intimate  side  of  his  character  is  revealed  to  the 
public;  they  are  absolutely  simple  and  real;  wholly  free  from  strain; 
rich  in  the  temper  of  enjoyment;  .  .  .  and  behind  their  kindness  and  their 
brightness,  we  can  discern  strength,  and  even  something  of  unostentatious 
heroism.  .  .  .  — Edward  Doivden. 

Brooke,  Stopford.  Jacks,  Lawrence  Pearsall.  Life  and  letters 
of  Stopford  Brooke.     2  v.     Scribner,  1917. 

An  authority  on  English  literature  charmingly  revealed  by  his  son-in- 
law. 

Clarke,  1/;-^.  Mary  Cowden.    My  long  life.     Dodd,  1897. 

Mrs.  Clarke,  a  distinguished  Shakespeare  scholar  connected  with  the 
best  in  English  life  during  the  nineteenth  century,  has  written  charming 
memories  of  literary  and  musical  England. 

Hunt,  Leigh.  Autobiography  of  Leigh  Hunt  with  remi- 
niscences of  friends  and  contemporaries,  ed.  by  Roger 
Ingpen.    2  v.    Button,  1903. 

I  call  this  an  excellent  good  book  and  indeed  except  it  be  Boswell's  of 
Johnson,  I  do  not  know  where  we  have  such  a  picture  drawn  of  a  human 
life. — Thomas  Carlyle. 

Locker-Lampson,  Frederick.  Birrell,  Augustine.  Frederick 
Locker-Lampson,  a  character  sketch.     Scribner,  1920. 

This  is  not  a  biography  and  as  a  treatment  of  character  it  is  a  rather 
faint  outline,  but  it  is  not  the  less  interesting  for  stimulating  a  curiosity 
it  does  not  satisfy.  This  sends  us  on  to  Locker-Lampson's  "My  confi- 
dences" published  a  few  years  ago. 


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Meredith,  George.     Letters :  collected  and  edited  by  his  son. 
2  V.     Scribner,  1912. 

From  1844-1909  no  commentary  on  Meredith  and  his  work  is  necessary. 
His  letters  are  subjective  and  reveal  his  mind. 

Stephen,  Leslie.     Maitland,  F.  W.     Life  and  letters  of  Leslie 
Stephen.     Putnam,  1907. 

Mr.  Maitland's  attitude  is  consistently  that  of  a  thoroughly  sympathetic 
but  humorous  friend  .  .  .  and  he  has  drawn  a  novel  portrait  of  a  cheerful, 
melancholy,  lovable  man.  In  the  literary  free-for-all,  some  fly  to  the 
goal,  some  run,  some  walk  steadily,  observantly ;  in  literature  as  in  life 
Leslie  Stephen  will  be  remembered  as  the  Great  Pedestrian. — Ferris 
Greenslet. 


Tennyson,  Alfred.     Lounsbury,  Thomas  R.    Life  and  times  of 
Tennyson.     Yale,  1915. 


THE  MIDDLE  WEST 

Garland,  Hamlin.     A  son  of  the  middle  border.     Macmillan, 
1917. 

As  you  read  it  you  realize  that  it  is  the  memorial  of  a  generation, — of  a 
whole  order  of  American  experience. — William  Dean  Howells. 

Howells,  William  Dean.     Years  of  my  youth.     Harper,  1916. 

Maybe  a  sequel  to  "A  boys'  town."  It  is  a  picture  of  youth  in  the 
middle  west  in  the  '40's  and  '50's  that  has  impelling  charm.  "Literary 
friends  and  acquaintances"  round  out  Mr,  Howells's  autobiography. 

Osborn,  Chase  Salmon.    Iron  hunter.    Macmillan,  1919. 

Famous  in  Michigan  for  his  civic  reform  and  his  iron  minings,  Mr. 
Osborn  writes  an  autobiography  that  is  as  free  in  spirit  and  full  of  local 
color  as  a  life  may  well  be. 

Riley,   James   Whitcomb.      Dickey,    Marcus.     The   youth   of 
James  Whitcomb  Riley.     Bobbs-Merrill,  1919. 

Sure  of  Riley's  genius  and  confident  of  his  success,  the  author  never 
allowed  one  of  Riley's  words  to  escape  him.  He  was  Riley's  secretary 
for  years. 

Venable,    William    Henry.      Buckeye    boyhood.      Stewart    & 
Kidd,  1911. 

A  record  of  conditions  passed  away  never  to  return. — Waldo  Dunn. 


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Wallace,  Lewis.    Lew  Wallace ;  an  autobiography.    2  v.    Har- 
per, 1906. 

Dramatic  as  one  of  his  novels  is  Lew  Wallace's  story  of  his  own  life 
from  his  earliest  days  through  the  Civil  War. 


MISSIONS 

The  lives  under  Social  Service  show  much  the  same  spirit  as 
those  in  this  group. 

Grenfell,  Wilfred  T.     A  Labrador  doctor;  the  autobiography 
of  Wilfred  Thomason  Grenfell.     Houghton,  1919. 

No  danger  has  disconcerted  Dr.  Grenfell  in  his  work  among  the  fisher 
folk  of  Labrador  and  Newfoundland. 

Judson,  Ann  Hasseltine.    Hubbard,  E.  D.    Ann  of  Ava.    Mis- 
sionary Education  Movement,  1913. 

Ann  Hasseltine  Judson  was  the  wife  of  the  first  missionary  to  Burma. 

Lacombe,  Albert.    Hughes,  Katharine.    Father  Lacombe — the 
black-robed-voyageur.     Moffat,  1911. 

His  life,  devoted  and  self-sacrificing,  has  been  like  peaceful  moonlight. 
— W.  C.  Van  Home. 

Slessor,  Mary  Mitchell.    Livingstone,  William  Pringle.    Mary  q, 

Slessor  of  Calabar ;  pioneer  missionary.    Doran,  1917. 

A  biography  filled  with  charm,  heroism  and  adventure,  vigorous  achieve- 
ment and  the  freshness  of  pioneering. 


MUSIC 

Berlioz,    Hector.      Autobiography;   tr.    from    the    French   by 
Rachel  and  Eleanor  Holmes.    2  v.    Macmillan,  1884. 

Berlioz  prefaces  his  life  with  a  quotation  from  Macbeth  ending  "It  is 
a  tale  told  by  an  idiot,  full  of  sound  and  fury  signifying  nothing."  But 
no  quotation  could  be  more  inapt.  This  is  an  excellent  translation  of  a 
fully  lived  and  fully  written  life. 

Bispham,  David.     A  Quaker  singer's  recollections.     Macmil- 
lan, 1919. 

The  strange  tale  unfolded  by  a  distinguished  American  baritone  moves 
on  through  the  drab  existence  of  boyhood  to  the  colorful  middle  years 
when  scarcely  a  goal  is  unattained. 


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Chopin,  Frederic.    Huneker,  James  Gibbons.    Chopin,  the  man 
and  his  music.    Scribner,  1900. 

In  this  biography  some  of  the  sentimental  fallacies  concerning  Chopin 
are  dispelled. 

Fay,  Amy.    Music  study  in  Germany ;  ed.  by  Mrs.  Fay  Pierce. 
Macmillan,  1897. 

Miss  Fay  studied  with  Taussig  and  Liszt  and  other  great  and  inter- 
esting musicians  that  impressed  themselves  upon  her  own  remarkable 
personality. 

Franck,  Cesar.     d'Indy,  Vincent.     Cesar  Franck.     Lane,  1910. 
This  stands  out  as  one  of  the  most  readable  of  musical  biographies. 

Grieg,  Edward.    Finck,  Henry  T.    Edward  Grieg.    Lane,  1906. 

Grieg  is  recognized  as  a  master  who  has  enriched  music  with  melodic 
and  harmonic  expression  characteristic  of  the  land  of  the  fjord.  This 
biography  was  published  the  year  before  his  death  and  gives  a  scholarly 
account  of  his  musical  accomplishments. — Bernard  A.  Diamant. 

Handel,  Georg  Friedrich.     Rolland,  Romain.     Handel.     Holt, 
1916. 

So  many  biographies  of  musicians  seem  to  be  written  for  study.  There 
is  no  doubt  but  that  Rolland  meant  this  one  to  be  read.  It  sings  at  times 
with  the  same  dignity  with  which  Handel  himself  sang. 

Lehmann,  Lilli.     My  path  through  life;  tr.  by  Alice  B.  Selig- 
man.     Putnam,  1914. 

Frankly  and  with  a  living  interest  the  great  prima  donna  writes  of  the 
past  fifty  years  in  music. 

MacDowell,    Edward.      Gilman,    Lawrence.      Edward    Mac- 
Dowell.     Lane,  1909. 

MacDowell's  life  until  the  great  tragedy  preceding  his  death,  ran  along 
rather  uneventfully  as  genius'  lives  go.  Henry  Finck  says  of  this  pic- 
turesque character,  "A  Chopin  to  be  sure  we  have  not  given  to  the  world, 
but  our  own  Edward  MacDowell  ranks  with  the  half  dozen  greatest  piano 
composers  of  Europe." — Bernard  A.  Diamant. 

Schumann,  Robert.     Letters  of  Robert  Schumann  selected  by 
Dr.  Karl  Storck.     Button,  1907. 

A  short  but  intense  period  is  covered  by  the  letters  that  reveal  the  per- 
sonality of  two  of  the  greatest  musicians  that  have  ever  lived — Robert  and 
Clara  Schumann. 


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Thomas,  Theodore.  Thomas,  Mrs.  Rose  Fay.  Memoirs  of 
Theodore  Thomas.     Moffat,  1911. 

A  group  of  enthusiastic  musicians  made  Theodore  Thomas's  work  in 
Chicago  possible  and  those  years  form  the  basis  of  a  life  and  work  that 
is  probably  as  interesting  and  romantic  as  an  American  musician's  life 
could  be. 

Tschaikowsky,  Peter  lUytch.  Tschaikowsky,  Modeste.  Life 
and  letters  of  Peter  Illytch  Tschaikowsky,  tr.,  ed.  and 
arranged  from  the  Russian  by  Rosa  Newmarch.  Lane, 
1906. 

MYSTICISM 

Some  of  the  biographies  that  are  listed  under  Religious  Ex- 
periences have  much  in  them  that  borders  on  the  mystic. 

Blake,  William.  Berger,  Pierre.  William  Blake,  poet  and 
mystic ;  authorized  translation  from  the  French  by  D.  H. 
Conner.     Button,  1915. 

It  is  just  because  Blake  transcended  the  ordinary  designations  of  lan- 
guage and  produced  a  magic  of  primitive  and  child-like  echoes  that  almost 
any  attempt  to  convey  him  second-hand  is  futile.  He  must  be  found  as 
directly  as  he  found  the  world. — New  Republic. 

Gardner,   Charles.     Vision   and   vesture :   a   study   of 


William  Blake  in  modern  thought.     Button,  1916 

Columba,  Saint.    Adamnan,  Saint.    Life  of  St.  Columba.    New 
universal  library.     Button. 

(This)  is  the  first  authentic  manifestation  of  the  biographical  impulse 
in  Britain.  Its  approximate  date  is  690  A.  D.  The  Life  of  St.  Columba 
has  been  abundantly  praised.  The  whole  last  chapter  lingers  in  our  minds 
like  the  softened  strains  of  a  great  cathedral  organ. — Waldo  H.  Dunn. 

There  is  an  edition  in  the  original  Latin  edited  by  J.  T.  Fowler  with 
a  translation,  published  by  the  Oxford  press. 

Emerson,  Ralph  Waldo.     Journals.     10  v.     Houghton,  1910- 

1913. 

If  this  had  been  a  formal  autobiography  no  more  of  the  life  and  thought 
of  the  great  transcendentalist  could  have  been  revealed  to  us.  This  is 
the  work  that  we  reserve  for  the  moods  when  the  world  looks  hopeless 
and  a  restless  discontent  makes  sustained  reading  impossible. 

Fairless,  Michael.     Bowson,  M.  E.  and  Haggard,  Mrs.  A.  M. 
Michael  Fairless,  her  life  and  writings.     Button,  1913. 

A  rare  spirit  exquisitely  portrayed. 


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Francis  of  Assisi,  Saint.  Sabatier,  Paul.  St.  Francis  of  Assisi. 
Scribner,  1894. 

Sabatier  has  caught  the  genius  and  the  radiance  of  St.  Francis  and  by 
sheer  sjonpathy  gives  it  to  us. 

Joan  of  Arc.  DeQuincy,  Thomas.  Joan  of  Arc.  Longmans, 
1906. 

The  most  eloquent  thing  ever  done  for  Joan. — William  G.  Ross. 

France,  Anatole.    Life  of  Joan  of  Arc.  2  v.  Lane,  1909. 

Historians  have  criticized  this  work  translated  by  Winifred  Stephens 
but  it  remains  a  brilliant  and  vivid  study.  M.  France's  point  is  that  Joan 
was  a  peasant  with  remarkable  religious  and  mystic  power  amounting  at 
times  to  hallucination. 

Nightingale,  Florence.  Cook,  Edward  Tyas.  Life  of  Florence 
Nightingale.    2  v.     Macmillan,  1913. 

The  ministering  angel  of  the  Crimea,  like  many  other  practical  persons, 
had  something  of  the  rnystic  in  her  nature. 

Teresa,  Saint.  Life  of  Saint  Teresa  of  Jesus  of  the  order  of 
Our  Lady  of  Carmel,  written  by  herself,  translated  from 
the  Spanish  by  D.  Lewis.    Benziger,  1911. 

Teresa  is  the  rare  example  of  a  mystic  who  yet  possessed  a  remarkable 
energy,  efficiency  and  executive  ability. 

Thompson,  Francis.  Meynell,  Everard.  The  life  of  Francis 
Thompson.     Scribner,  1913. 

Many  think  this  book  too  long  for  the  life  of  so  intangible  a  personality. 
But  in  spite  of  this,  Thompson  compels  our  interest  just  as  he  did  that 
of  literary  London. 

Vivekananda,  szi>dmi.  Nivedita.  The  Master  as  I  saw  him : 
being  pages  from  the  life  of  the  Swami  Vivekananda  by 
his  disciple  Nivedita  of  Ramakrishna-Vivekananda.  Long- 
mans, 1918. 

The  charm  of  the  Swami's  life  as  well  as  his  power  is  set  down  to- 
gether with  his  doctrines.  Many  will  recall  his  teaching  of  the  Budd- 
histic doctrine  in  the  United  States,  his  first  visit  being  in  1893. 


NATURE  LOVERS 

These  are  the  observers  of  nature  as  well  as  naturalists.  Lives 
of  other  scientists  will  be  found  under  Evolution  and  under 
Science. 


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Audubon,  John  James.     ITerrick,  Francis  Hobart.     Audubon, 
the  naturalist.    2  v.    Appleton,  1917. 

Audubon's  journals  are  his  life — but  this  discloses  much  of  the  natural- 
ist's life  that  he  himself  has  not  revealed. 

Bonheur,   Rosa.     Stanton,   Theodore,   ed.     Reminiscences  of 
Rosa  Bonheur.     Appleton,  1910. 

Fabre,  Jean  Henri  Casimir.     Legros,  G.  V.     Fabre,  poet  of 
science.    Century,  1913. 

Fabre  made  all  of  the  scientific  facts  of  insect  life  as  romantic  and  as 
readable  as  a  novel.     He  was  a  lovable  person  as  Legros  shows  us. 

Gilley,  John.     Eliot,  Charles  William.     John   Gilley:   Maine 
farmer  and  fisherman.    Amer.  Unitarian  Assoc,  1904. 

1       The  power  of  a  place  in  a  man's  life  is  shown  in  a  masterful  way. 

Hudson,  William  Henry.     Far  away  and  long  ago.     Button, 
1918. 

The  Argentine  pampas  in  the  reign  of  the  tyrant  Rosas  is  the  back- 
ground for  this  poetic  autobiography  of  which  He)nvood  Broun  wrote, 
"Anybody  who  is  not  already  in  the  middle  of  a  book  ought  to  lose 
no  time  in  beginning  on  W.  H.  Hudson's  'Far  away  and  long  ago.'  Any- 
body who  is  in  the  middle  of  a  book  ought  to^  let  it  wait  untij  he  too  has 
read  this  most  enticing  autobiography  about  childhood,  Argentine,  ostriches 
and  South  American  cowboys." 

Muir,  John,     Story  of  my  childhood  and  youth.     Houghton, 
1913. 
The  child  as  well  as  the  man  loved  the  out-of-doors. 

Selous,  Frederick  Courteney.    Millais,  J.  G.    The  life  of  Fred- 
erick Courteney  Selous.     D.  S.  O.     Longmans,  1920. 

Thoreau,  Henry  David.    Sanborn,  Frank  B.    A  life  of  Henry 
D.  Thoreau.     Houghton,  1917. 

Thoreau  had  decided,  it  would  seem,  from  the  very  first  to  lead  a  life 
of  self-improvement;  the  needle  did  not  tremble  as  with  richer  natures, 
but  pointed  steadily  north ;  and  as  he  saw  duty  and  inclination  in  one,  he 
turned  all  his  strength  in  that  direction. — Robert  Louis  Stevenson. 

White,  Gilbert.    Shelley,  Henry  Charles.     Gilbert  White  and 
Selborne.     Scribner,  1909. 

One  recalls  this  biography  with  delight  not  only  because  this  is  the 
centenary  year  of  the  famous  naturalist,  but  because  he  stands  out  as  a 
cultured,  charming  figure  in  the  pleasant  country  life  in  18th  century 
England. 


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NEW  ENGLAND 

Alcott,  Louisa  May.    Cheney,  Mrs.  E.  L,    Louisa  May  Alcott : 
her  life,  letters  and  journals.     Little,  1900. 

Creevey,  Mrs.  Caroline  Alathea   (Stickney).     A  daughter  of 
the  Puritans;  an  autobiography.     Putnam,  1916. 

The  more  serious  side  of  New  England  home  and  school  life  in  the  mid- 
nineteenth  century. 

Gilley,  John.     Eliot,  Charles  William.     John  Gilley:     Maine 
farmer  and  fisherman.     American  Unitarian  Assoc,  1904. 

Waldo  Dunn  calls  this  one  of  our  perfect  short  biographies. 

Hale,  Susan.     Letters  of  Susan  Hale ;  ed.  by  Caroline  P.  At- 
kinson with  an  introduction  by  E.  E.  Hale.    Jones,  1919. 

A  letter-writer  of  the  old  school  who  took  time  to  give  her  corre- 
spondents witty  comment  on  people  and  affairs  and  the  pungency  of  her 
own  personality. 

Higginson,  Thomas  Wentworth.  Cheerful  yesterdays.  Hough- 
ton, 1900. 

Howe,  Mrs.  Julia  Ward.  Richards,  Laura  E.  and  Elliot,  Maude 
Howe.    Julia  Ward  Howe.     Houghton,  1916. 

No  woman  ever  walked  through  life  with  greater  purpose  and  determi- 
nation than  Mrs.  Howe.  She  radiated  as  she  went  an  influence  that  was 
felt  by  her  own  generation. 

Jewett,  Sarah  Orne.    Letters,  ed.  by  Annie  Fields.    Houghton, 
1911. 

Interesting  comment  on  writers,  charming  descriptions  of  places  and 
persons  distinguish  this  collection  of  informal  letters. 

Larcom,  Lucy.    A  New  England  girlhood,  outlined  from  mem- 
ory.   Houghton,  1889. 

This  is  an  interesting  bit  of  history  of  social  conditions  in  New  Eng- 
land covering  the  period  when  factories  were  simply  organized  and  human. 

Lowell,  James  Russell.    Scudder,  H.  E.    James  Russell  Lowell. 
2  V.    Houghton,  1901. 

Stedman,  Edmund  Clarence.     Fuller,  Margaret.    A  New  Eng- 
land childhood.     Little,  1916. 

A  true  picture  of  New  England  eighty  years  ago.  Stedman's  boyhood 
was  surrounded  by  beautiful  and  interesting  people  and  things. 


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NEW  YORK 

Armstrong,  Maitland.  Day  before  yesterday;  reminiscences 
of  a  varied  life,  ed.  by  his  daughter,  Margaret  Armstrong. 
Scribner,  1920. 

Although  an  artist  and  a  diplomat,  Maitland  Armstrong  was  above  all 
a  New  Yorker  by  long  tradition  and  by  personal  affection.  In  the  course 
of  his  long  and  vigorous  life  he  knew  most  of  the  people  who  have  made 
the  annals  of  the  city  interesting  and  worth  while.  These  pages  go  back 
to  days  that  few  living  can  remember — when  Corporal  Thompson  kept 
his  Roadhouse  on  the  site  of  the  now  vanished  Fifth  Avenue  Hotel,  when 
peppermints  came,  stuck  in  rows  on  cards,  when  blue  roundabouts  with 
navy  brass  buttons  were  bought  at  Brooks's  store  in  Catherine  Street; 
when  Washington  Square  was  Sandy  Hill  and  cows  looked  over  the  fence 
behind  the  water-trough  at  14th  Street  and  Fifth  Avenue. 

Clarke,  Mrs.  Caroline  Cowles  (Richards).  Village  life  in 
America,  1852-1872.    Holt,  1912. 

The  simple  ways  of  the  villages  of  central  New  York  and  the  homely 
details  of  life  in  a  cultivated  household  are  recited  with  quaint  humor 
and  with  literary  instinct. — A.  L.  A.  Booklist. 

Henry,  O.  Smith,  C.  Alphonso.  O.  Henry ;  biography.  Double- 
day,  1916. 

The  publication  of  this  biography  was  a  literary  sensation.  The  un- 
known part  of  Sidney  Porter's  life — the  years  spent  in  prison — was  here 
for  the  first  time  revealed.  The  disclosure  has  served  to  make  O.  Henry 
all  the  better  beloved. — Bessie  Graham. 

James,  Henry.    A  small  boy  and  others.     Scribner,  1913. 

Of  a  sudden  a  thing  that  seemed  all  meaningless,  blotches  of  light  and 
shade,  a  mere  glimmering  surface  spotted  with  shadows,  is  transformed 
magically  into  a  familiar  scene  and  an  older  New  York  comes  before  you. 

Matthews,  Brander.  These  many  years;  recollections  of  a 
New  Yorker.    Scribner,  1917. 

The  chapters  on  New  York  literature  are  of  such  unique  value  as  to 
constitute  an  incomparable  contribution  to  our  literary  history. — William 
Dean  Howells. 

Sangster,  Mrs.  Margaret  E.  (Munson).  An  autobiography 
from  my  youth  up.     Revell,  1909. 

A  quiet  home  life,  Civil  War  experiences  with  later  literary  "relations 
mark  Mrs.  Sangster's  life.  A  placid  wholesome  simplicity  that  is  char- 
teristic  of  a  large  group  of  our  own  people  gives  this  book  its  value. 

Wheeler,  Mrs.  Candace.  Yesterdays  in  a  busy  life.  Harper, 
1918. 


40  VIEWPOINTS  IN  BIOGRAPHY 

THE  ORIENT 

Abdul  Hamid.  Pears,  Sir  Edwin.  Life  of  Abdul  Hamid 
(Makers  of  the  nineteenth  century).    Holt,  1917. 

This  will  be  the  standard  biography  of  the  worst  of  all  the  Sultans. — 
Spectator. 

Hearn,  Lafcadio.  Bisland,  Elizabeth.  Lafcadio  Hearn,  life 
and  letters.     2  v.     Houghton,     1906. 

Hearn  is  the  ideal  interpreter  of  Japan.  He  is  himself,  however,  a 
figure  that  can  not  be  interpreted  easily.  He  lived  an  alien  among  aliens 
and  between  the  periods  of  his  life  there  is  slight  connection. 

Ninomiya,  Sontoku.  Tomita,  Kokei.  Peasant  sage  of  Japan: 
the  life  and  work  of  Sontoku  Ninomiya,  translated  from 
the  Hotokuki  by  Tadasu  Yoshimoto.     Longmans,   1912. 

Japan  has  had  no  more  thorough  interpreter  than  Sontoku  Ninomij^a 
whose  own  life  reveals  the  conditions  there.  He  was  one  of  the  first  labor 
psychologists. 

Pears,  Sir  Edwin.  Forty  years  in  Constantinople.  Appleton, 
1916. 

Sir  Edwin  died  in  November,  1919.  Up  to  that  time,  from  1873  when 
he  first  went  to  Constantinople  as  a  barrister  he  was  considered  an  author- 
ity on  the  Near  East. 

Roberts,  Lord.  Forty-one  years  in  India.  2  v.  Longmans, 
1904. 

England  in  India  and  Lord  Roberts  were  one. 

Tagore,  Sir  Rabindranath.  My  reminiscences.  Macmillan, 
1917. 

There  are  vivid  pictures  of  Indian  habits  and  scenery,  birds,  analyses 
of  people  and  theories  in  this  very  frank  self-revelation. 

Vivekananda,  swami.  Nivedita.  The  Master  as  I  saw  him, 
being  pages  from  the  life  of  Swami  Vivekananda  by  his 
disciple  Nivedita  of  Ramakrisha-Vivekananda.  Long- 
mans, 1918. 

The  quiet  thoughtful  India,  the  India  of  meditation,  of  spiritual  with- 
drawal is  here  presented. 

PARENTS  AND  CHILDREN 

Chesterfield,  Philip  Dormer  Stanhope,  4th  earl  of.     Letters  to 

his  son  on  the  art  of  becoming  a  man  of  the  world  and 
a  gentleman.     Lippincott,  1904. 

Chesterfield  understood  j'-outh  so  well  that  he  wrote  to  his  son  not  as 
a  superior  but  as  an  equal  friend. 


VIEWPOINTS  IN  BIOGRAPHY  41 

Gosse,  Edmund.     Father  and  son.     Scribner,  1907. 

Edmund  Gosse  chafed  under  his  father's  restraints.  A  break  was  in- 
evitable under  Philip  Henry  Gosse's  unyielding,  ardent  religious  dicta- 
torship. 

Irvine,  Alexander  F.     My  lady  of  the  chimney  corner.     Cen- 
tury, 1913. 

A  tribute  to  the  author's  mother. 

Roosevelt,  Theodore.    Letters  to  his  children.    Scribner,  1918. 

One  would  wish  for  the  good  of  our  American  citizenship  that  this 
volume  could  be  scattered  broadcast  in  every  American  household  con- 
taining parents  and  children. — Frederic  Tabor  Cooper. 

Sevigne,  marquise  de.    Aldis,  Janet.     Queen  of  letter  writers, 
Marquise  de  Sevigne.     Putnam,  1907. 

Few  mothers  nowadays  receive  the  confidences  made  by  her  son  to 
Madam  de  Sevigne,  or  would  retail  them  afterwards  in  letters  to  a 
young  daughter. — Anna  Robeson  Burr. 

Best  letters  of  Madam  de  Sevigne,  ed.  by  E.  P.  Ander- 


son.   4th  ed.    McClurg,  1915. 

When  Janet  Aldis's  book  is  not  to  be  obtained,  this  is  a  satisfactory 
substitute. 

PIONEER  WOMEN 

Adam,  Juliette.  Stephens,  Winifred.  Madame  Adam — la 
grande  Francaise  from  Louis  Phillippe  until  1917.  But- 
ton, 1917. 

The  editor  of  La  Nouvelle  Revue — the  suggestor  of  the  French  and 
Roman  alliance — friend  of  Hugo,  Loti,  Gambetta — few  people  played  a 
larger  part  than  she  in  the  history  of  the  Second  Empire. 

Anthony,  Susan  Brownall,  1820-1906.  Harper,  L  A.  Life  and 
work  of  Susan  B.  Anthony.  3  v.  Nat'l  Woman  Suffrage 
Pub.  Co.,  1899. 

Booth-Clibborn,  Catherine.  Strahan,  James.  The  marechale 
(Catherine  Booth-Clibborn).     Doran,  1914. 

The  eldest  daughter  of  General  Booth  was  the  leading  spirit  of  the 
Salvation  Army  movement  in  France. 

Mitchell,  Maria.  Life,  letters  and  journals;  comp.  by  P.  M. 
Kendall.     Lothrop,  1896. 

The  life  of  the  first  American  woman  who  devoted  her  years  to  science. 


42  VIEWPOINTS  IN  BIOGRAPHY 

Shaw,  Anna  Howard.  The  story  of  a  pioneer,  by  Anna  How- 
ard Shaw,  with  the  collaboration  of  Elizabeth  Jordan. 
Harper,  1915. 

Her  unusual  childhood  and  a  vigorous  youth  that  led  to  middle  years 
of  fulfillment  are  humorously  and  directly  written  of  by  Dr.  Shaw  who  was 
one  of  the  leaders  in  extending  suffrage  to  women. 

Wheeler,  Mrs.  Candace.  Yesterdays  in  a  busy  life.  Harper, 
1918. 

Mrs.  Wheeler  was  instrumental  in  founding  the  first  woman's  exchange 
to  afJord  women  an  opportunitj-  to  put  their  work  on  an  economic  basis. 

POETRY 

The  genius  of  the  poet  sometimes  shines  through  the  prose 
of  the  biographer  giving  it  poetic  quality.  Under  Literary 
Genius  and  Democracy  are  other  lives  of  poets. 

Brooke,  Rupert.  Marsh,  Edward  Howard.  Rupert  Brooke; 
a  memoir.    Lane,  1918. 

"He's  gone. 

I  do  not  understand. 

I  only  know 

That  as  he  turned  to  go 

And  waved  his  hand 

In  his  young  eyes  a  sudden  glory  shone! 

And  I  was  dazzled  by  a  sunset  glow, 

And  he  was  gone." — Wilfrid  IVilson  Gibson. 

Goethe,  Johann  Wolfgang  von.  Poetry  and  truth  from  my 
own  life.    2  v.     Macmillan. 

Keats,  John.  Colvin,  Sir  Sidney.  John  Keats,  his  life  and 
poetry,  his  friends,  critics  and  after-fame.    Scribner,  1917. 

It  is  a  remarkable  thing  that  this  great  biography  of  Keats  should  have 
been  written  by  a  man  in  his  seventy-third  year,  and  written  with  such 
a  fine  note  of  sympathy  and  with  so  keen  an  eye  to  the  essentials  of  a 
man's  life. — Clement  Shorter. 

Shelley,  Percy  Bysshe.  Thompson,  Francis.  Shelley.  Scrib- 
ner, 1912. 

A  poet's  tribute  to  a  poet  in  prose  that  is  true  poetry. 

Wordsworth,  Dorothy.  Journals  ;  ed.  by  William  Knight.  2  v. 
Macmillan,  1897. 

Now  and  then  a  short  period  of  one's  life  is  so  indicative  of  the  whole 
that  it  may  be  called  a  biography — so  with  these  journals  covering  only 
1798-1803.  (It)  "renews  and  deepens  our  knowledge  of  one  of  the  most 
beautiful  relationships  in  all  literature." — Academy. 


VIEWPOINTS  IN  BIOGRAPHY  43 

Wordsworth,  William.  The  prelude  ed.  by  W.  B.  Worsfold. 
2  V.     Luce. 

Wordsworth's  poetical  autobiography  shows  how  every  stage  in  his 
early  mental  development  was  connected  with  some  walk  in  the  Lake 
region. 

POLITICAL  HISTORY 

Benton,  Thomas  H.  Thirty  years  view;  or,  a  history  of  the 
working  of  the  American  government  for  thirty  years, 
from  1820-1850.     .     .     2  v.    Appleton,  1854. 

One  of  the  original  sources  of  American  political  history,  this  work  by 
the  picturesque  character,  who  represented  Missouri  in  the  Senate  for 
thirty  3-ears,  is  valuable  for  its  copious  extracts  from  the  debates  of  that 
period,  for  its  running  account  of  the  political  and  governmental  develop- 
ments of  the  time  and  for  its  verbal  pictures  of  outstanding  personalities. 
It  is  the  only  book  of  its  kind.  Its  importance  is  not  impaired  by  the 
prominence  it  gives  to  its  author  and  his  views. — Royal  J.  Davis. 

Cavour,  Camillo  Benso  di,  conte.  Thayer,  William  Roscoe. 
The  life  and  times  of  Cavour.    2  v.    Houghton,  1911. 

Mr.  Thayer  is  completely  saturated  with  Cavour's  thought.  He  has  viv- 
idly reproduced  the  Italian  spirit  of  the  time  (and)  has  followed  with 
particular  minuteness  the  intricacies  of  European  diplomacy  in  which 
Cavour  was  the  master  mind  from  1858-1861. — Nation. 

Cromwell,  Oliver.  IMorley,  John.  Oliver  Cromwell.  Cen- 
tur>^  1900. 

Interest  is  highly  centered  in  the  commentary  on  the  critical  phases  and 
on  the  political  problems  that  enveloped  Cromwell  and  the  revolution 
of  1660. 

Erasmus,  Desiderius.  Froude,  James  Anthony.  Erasmus. 
Scribner,  1894. 

The  picture  of  the  State  of  Europe  just  before  the  Reformation,  as  seen 
through  the  eyes  of  this  great  medieval  scholar,  cannot  be  surpassed  in 
truth,  vividness,  and  interest. — The  author. 

Machiavelli,  Niccolo.  Villari,  Pasquale.  Life  and  times  of 
Niccolo  Machiavelli;  tr.  by  Linda  Villari.  New  ed. 
Scribner,  1904. 

For  centuries  Machiavelli  has  been  regarded  as  a  species  of  sphinx  of 
whom  no  one  could  solve  the  riddle.  The  theory  of  the  author  is  that 
an  adequate  explanation  can  only  be  found  in  a  study  of  the  man  and 
his  times  as  revealed  especially  in  his  unpublished  writings. — C.  K.  Adams. 

Morley,  John.    Recollections.    2  v.    Macmillan,  1917. 

No  one  who  wants  to  know  the  intellectual  history  of  the  19th  century 
and  its  probable  effect  on  the  future  progress  of  mankind  can  leave  this 
book  unread. — Robert  R.  Henderson. 


44  VIEWPOINTS  IN  BIOGRAPHY 

Roosevelt,  Theodore.    Thayer,  Wm.  Roscoe.  Theodore  Roose- 
velt, an  intimate  biography.     Houghton,  1919. 

The  secondary  title  is  by  way  of  being  a  misnomer,  for  instead  of  an 
"intimate  biography,"  Thayer  has  given  us  an  illuminating  history  of 
Roosevelt's  political  career,  throwing  light  on  many  hitherto  unexplained 
courses  of  action. — Mary  L.  Titcomb. 

Talleyrand-Perigord,  Charles   Maurice  de.     Loliee,   Frederic. 
Prince  Talleyrand  and  his  times.    Brentano,  1912. 

The  intricacies  of  many  political  situations  are  omitted  but  the  political 
atmosphere  is  all  here. 

Watterson,  Henry.    "Marse  Henry."    2  v.    Doran,  1919. 

For  fifty  years  the  author  of  these  memoirs  has  been  editor  and  owner 
of  the  Louisville  Courier  Journal.  His  uncompromising  Americanism  and 
his  intimate  knowledge  of  social  and  political  America  have  made  him 
both  feared  and  beloved. 

White,   Andrew   Dickson.     Autobiography.     2   v.      Century, 
1905. 

As  President  of  Cornell  University  and  as  ambassador  and  diplomat 
Mr.  White  rendered  notable  service  to  the  United  States. 


PRE-RAPHAELITISM 

Under  Art  are  artists  of  other  times  and  schools. 

Burne-Jones,  Edward.  Burne-Jones,  G.  M,  Memorials  of 
Edward  Burne-Jones,  1833-1898.     2  v.     Macmillan,  1904. 

The  set  that  knew  Burne-Jones  is  perhaps  unrivaled  in  the  history  of 
art.  They  were  a  brotherhood  working  for  the  beautiful  and  were  singu- 
larly unenvious  of  one  another. 

Hunt,  William  Holman.  1827-1910.  Pre-Raphaelitism  and 
the  pre-Raphaelite  brotherhood.     2  v.     Macmillan,  1905. 

Rossetti,  Dante  Gabriel.  His  family  letters  with  a  memoir  by 
Wm.  M.  Rossetti.    2  v.     Roberts,  1895. 

Rossetti,  William  Michael.  Some  reminiscences.  2  v.  Brown 
Langham,  1906. 

PUBLISHERS  AND  THE  PRESS 

Blackwood,  William.  Oliphant,  Margaret.  Annals  of  a  pub- 
lishing house,  Wm.  Blackwood  and  his  sons,  their  maga- 
zine and  friends.     3  v.     Edinburgh.     Blackwood,  1897. 


VIEWPOINTS  IN  BIOGRAPHY  45 

Borthwick,  Algernon.     Lucas,  Reginald.     Lord  Glenesk  and 
the  "Morning  Post."    Rivers,  1910. 

Through  three  generations  the  Morning  Post  was  edited  by  a  Borthwick. 
One  may  disagree  with  the  Post's  conservative  policies  but  one  must  have 
a  great  regard  for  the  family  that  has  owned  it  since  1850  and  that  has 
played  a  really  entertaining  part  in  English  politics  and  London  society. 


Delane,  John  Thadeus.     Cook,  Sir  Edward.     Delane  of  the 
Times.     Holt,  1916.     (Makers  of  the  nineteenth  century.) 

Events  of  his  time  are  recorded,  journalistic  developments  are  discussed 
and  biographical  details  are  given  only  as  they  serve  to  illustrate  the 
character,  the  methods  and  the  power  of  the  editor. — From  the  Preface. 


Francis,  John.  Francis,  John  Collins.  John  Francis,  publisher 
of  the  Athenaeum :  a  literary  chronicle  of  half  a  century. 
2  V.    Bentley,  1888. 

Harper,  J.  Rainey.    House  of  Harper.    Harper,  1912. 

There  are  excellent  reminiscences  of  English  and  American  authors 
here,  a  fine  contribution  to  the  history  of  publishing. 

Labouchere,  Henry.  Thorold,  A.  L.  Life  of  Henry  La- 
bouchere.     Putnam,  1913. 

As  reporter  for  the  "Daily  News"  in  Paris  in  1870  and  owner  of 
"Truth,"  Labouchere  contributed  to  English  journalism  and  brought  to 
himself  both  notoriety  and  fame. 

Putnam,  George  Haven.  Memories  of  my  youth.  Putnam, 
1914. 

No  more  important  and  absorbing  history  of  the  world  of  letters  exists 
than  these  volumes  of  a  successful  publisher's  life. 


Memories  of  a  publisher.     Putnam,  1915. 

The  story  of  the  founding  of  the  house  of  Putnam  is  interesting  for 
the  part  Putnam  has  played  in  the  Copyright  bill  and  for  the  delightful 
anecdotes  of  famous  authors. 


RADIANT  ADVENTURES 

Brooke,  Rupert.    Marsh,  Edward  Howard.    Rupert  Brooke,  a 
memoir.     Lane,  1918. 

A  slight  but  sympathetic  life  of  the  most  English  of  English  soldier- 
poets. 


46  VIEWPOINTS  IN  BIOGRAPHY 

Huneker,  James  Gibbons.    Steeple  Jack.    2  v.    Scribner,  1919. 

From  earliest  memory  until  1917  James  Huneker  has  had  not  one  dull 
moment.  His  aspirations,  his  accomplishments,  his  associations  and  his 
recollections,  each  one  surrounded  by  a  flame  that  cannot  be  extinguished. 
No  fine  art  has  missed  the  touch  of  Huneker. 

Montagu,  Lady  Mary  (Pierrepont)  Wortley.  Letters  and 
works,  ed.  by  Lord  Wharncliffe.     2  v.     1893. 

In  the  early  18th  century  Lady  Montagu  was  one  of  the  leaders  of 
English  society.  Her  keen  wit  and  clever  observations  made  her  famous. 
Her  letters  are  herself. 

Pepys,  Samuel.  Diary  and  correspondence.  4  v.  1889-1897. 
Macmillan. 

Pepys  has  no  self  outside  the  thrill  of  his  experiences. — Arthur  Mac- 
Dozvall. 

Smith,  Harry  James.  Letters  of  Harry  James  Smith,  with  an 
introduction  by  Juliet  Wilbur  Tompkins.  Houghton, 
1919. 

Letters  that  radiate  buoyancy  alike  in  frail  health  and  in  straitened 
circumstances  and  in  his  literary  failures  and  successes. — A.  L.  A.  Book- 
list. 

Stevenson,  Mrs.  Robert  Louis.  Sanchez,  Mrs.  Nellie.  Life  of 
Mrs.  Robert  Louis  Stevenson.     Scribner,  1919. 

Daring  horsewoman,  a  good  shot,  a  supreme  cook,  artist,  writer  and  a 
very  Gene  Stratton  Porter  among  flowers,  fearless,  beautiful  and  of  unique 
charm,  where  could  another  woman  have  been  found  so  marvelously  gifted 
to  be  the  wife  of  a  romancer?  It  seems  odd  that  Philadelphia  and  Edin- 
burgh, the  two  most  conservatively  minded  cities  of  the  Anglo-Saxon 
earth  should  have  combined  to  produce  this  the  most  radiant  pair  of 
adventurers  in  our  recent  annals. — Christopher  Morley. 


RELIGIOUS  EXPERIENCES 

Abbott,  L5mian.     Reminiscences.     Houghton,  1915. 

"I  have  stood  in  the  bow  forecasting  the  course,  not  in  the  stern  watch- 
ing the  log."  It  is  significant  that  with  this  thought  Dr.  Abbott  both 
begins  and  concludes  the  account  of  his  eventful  life  for  the  contributions 
which  he  has  made  through  the  pulpit,  platform  and  periodical,  to  the 
thought  of  his  time,  has  been  distinctly  progressive. — Cora  Higgins. 

Booth,  William.     Begbie,  Harold.     Life  of  General  William 
Booth.     2  V.     Macmillan,  1920. 

The  lights  and  shadows  of  religious  melancholy  and  rapture,  of  self-dis- 
trust and  ambition,  of  loneliness  and  catholicity,  play  fitfully  across  these 
pages  to  the  end. — W.  L.  S.  in  Atlantic  Monthly. 


VIEWPOINTS  IN  BIOGRAPHY  47 

Brooks,  Phillips.    Allen,  A.  V.  G.    Life  and  letters  of  Phillips 
Brooks.    Button,  1900. 

Beyond  doubt  it  marks  the  highest  point  attained  by  an  American 
biographer. — Waldo  Dunn. 

Bunyan,  John.     Grace  abounding;  ed.  by  John  Brown  with 
Pilgrims  progress.     Putnam,  1907. 

Few  books  are  more  interesting  than  this  labyrinth  of  strange  scruples 
invented  by  a  quick  brain  and  peopled  by  the  phantoms  created  by  a 
poetical  imagination  under  stress  of  profound  poetical  excitement.  Inci- 
dentally we  learn  to  know  and  love  the  author. — Leslie  Stephen. 

Campbell,  Reginald  John.    A  spiritual  pilgrimage.    Appleton, 
1916. 

A  spiritual  autobiography.  The  author,  once  minister  at  the  City  Tem- 
ple, London,  and  a  leader  of  the  New  Theologists,  later  took  orders  in 
the  Church  of  England. 

Clarke,   James    Freeman.     Autobiography,    diary   and   corre- 
spondence; ed.  by  E.  E.  Hale.    Houghton,  1891. 

As  one  would  expect,  there  is  a  strong  psychological  religious  element 
permeating  this  autobiography. 

Digby,  Kenelm  Henry.     Holland,  Bernard.     Memoir  of  Ken- 
elm  Henry  Digby.     Longmans,  1919. 

Digby  took  his  degree  in  1819.  Soon  after  that  he  was  converted  to 
Roman  Catholicism.  All  through  his  full  life  he  was  devoted  to  the  past 
as  being  sacred  and  secure.  The  present  was  more  or  less  an  enigma, 
the  future  a  mirage. 

Hare,  Augustus  J.  C.    Story  of  my  life.    4  v.    Dodd,  1896. 

Stripped  of  description  and  outside  anecdote  (this)  presents  an  hered- 
itary and  family  situation  of  religious  overstrain  which  one  must  return 
to  Guilert  or  Nogent  to  parallel. — Anna  Robeson  Burr. 

Macready,  William  C.    Reminiscences.    Macmillan,  1875. 

Curiously  enough  the  life  of  the  great  actor  is  a  religious  document. 
To  a  critical  world,  the  apologist  is  anxious  to  restate  it  to  his  own  soul. 
The  truth  that  "qui  s'excuse,  s'accuse"  is  felt  to  underlie  a  man's  attempts 
aj  self-justification. — Anna  Robeson  Burr. 

Newman,  John  Henry.    Apologia  pro  vita  sua,  being  a  history 
of  his  religious  opinions.     Longmans,  1897, 

Savonarola.    Villari,  Pasquale.    Life  and  times  of  Savonarola; 
tr.  by  L.  Villari.     Scribner,  1888. 

Villari  ranks  Savonarola  with  those  who  in  the  long  line  of  history 
have  endeavored  to  reconcile  reason  with  faith  and  religion  with  liberty. 


48  VIEWPOINTS  IN  BIOGRAPHY 

Villari  takes  pains  to  show  clearly  the  nature  of  his  quarrel  with  Rome 
and  to  deny  that  he  was  a  precursor  of  Luther  or  in  any  sense  a  Protestant. 
He  was  a  precursor  rather  of  the  Counter  Reformation. — Atlantic  Monthly. 

Sterling,  John.  Carlyle,  Thomas.  Life  of  John  Sterling. 
Scribner,  1899. 

A  few  years  before  Carlyle  published  this  life  he  wrote  "there  is  no 
heroic  poem  in  the  world  but  is  at  bottom  a  biography,  the  life  of  a  man ; 
also,  it  may  be  said,  there  is  no  life  of  a  man  faithfully  recorded,  but  is 
a  heroic  poem  of  its  sort,  rhymed  or  unrhymed."  It  remained  for  Car- 
lyle to  produce,  in  memory  of  his  friend,  an  unrhymed  heroic  poem. — 
Waldo  Dunn. 

THE  RENAISSANCE 

Borgia,  Caesar.    Garner,  J.  L.    Caesar  Borgia.    McBride,  1912. 

The  Borgias  represented  the  generosity  and  unscrupulous  life  of  the 
Renaissance.  Max  Beerbohm  pointedly  says,  "A  man  may  have  said 
— 'I  am  dining  with  the  Borgias  tonight' — but  no  one  was  ever  heard  to 
say,  'I  dined  with  the  Borgias  last  night.'  " 

Cellini,  Benvenuto.  Life ;  tr.  by  John  Addington  Symonds  with 
an  introduction  by  Royal  Cortissoz.    2  v.    Brentano,  1917. 

The  artistic  sensualist  today,  no  doubt,  is  less  highly  colored  than 
was  Cellini,  for  nature  today  uses  no  such  brilliant  palette  as  she  did  in 
the  Renaissance. — Anna  Robeson  Burr. 

d'Este,  Beatrice.  Ady,  IMrs.  Julia  Cartwright.  Beatrice 
d'Este,  duchess  of  Milan,  1475-1497;  a  study  of  the  Renais- 
sance.   Button,  1903. 

Beatrice  was  the  young  and  radiant  queen  of  a  golden  age  in  Italy.  This 
story  shows  how  Italy  was  affected  by  the  Renaissance  and  by  the  polit- 
ical aims  of  France.  Ludovico  and  his  ambitions  come  in  for  a  share  in 
his  wife's  biography  though  Beatrice  died  before  he  lost  the  throne  of 
Milan. 

d'Este,  Isabella.  Ady,  Mrs.  Julia  Cartwright.  Isabella  d'Este, 
marchioness  of  Mantua,  1474-1539;  a  study  of  the  Renais- 
sance,   2  V.    Dutton,  1903. 

Isabelle  d'Este  was  more  brilliant  and  more  intellectual  than  her  sister 
Beatrice.  Her  correspondence  with  many  of  the  leaders  of  the  Renais- 
sance has  been  preserved  and  shows  how  much  she  influenced  the  liter- 
ature and  art  of  the  time.  She  married  Francesco  Gonzaga  of  Mantua 
to  reign  at  his  court  as  the  most  remarkable  lady  of  the  Renaissance. 

ROMANTIC  LOVE 

Abelard,  Pierre  and  Heloise.  The  love  letters  of  Abelard  and 
Heloise.  Putnam.  Reprinted  from  the  London  transla- 
tion of  1722. 


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Aspasia.  Landor,  Walter  Savage.  Pericles  and  Aspasia. 
Roberts,  1879. 

The  pages  of  the  book  take  you  to  the  theatre  where  Prometheus  is 
played,  to  the  house  where  Socrates  and  Aristophanes  meet,  and  to  the 
statesman  who  died  "remembering  in  the  fullness  of  my  heart  that  Athens 
confided  her  glory  and  Aspasia  her  happiness  to  me." — Edinburgh  Review. 

Browning,  Robert  and  Elizabeth  (Barrett).  Letters,  1845- 
1846.    2  V.    Harper,  1899. 

The  sense  that  so  intimate  a  set  of  letters  should  not  be  laid  bare 
to  the  public  has  been  gradually  overcome  by  the  perception  of  their  sin- 
gular charm. — Leslie  Stephen. 

d'Lespinasse,  Julie  Jeanne.  Letters  of  Mile.  d'Lespinasse  with 
notes  on  her  life  and  character,  and  introduction  by  Sainte- 
Beuve.     Hardy,  1901. 

Mill,  John  Stuart.    Autobiography.    Holt,  1904. 

One  of  the  most  beautiful  love  stories  in  history  is  the  devotion  of  Mill 
ind  Mrs.  Taylor. 

Palmer,  Alice  Freeman.  Palmer,  George  Herbert.  Life  of 
Alice  Freeman  Palmer.     Houghton,  1908. 

The  devotion  revealed  in  this  biography  recalls  the  love  of  the  Brown- 
ings. 

Parker,  Carleton  Hubbell.  Parker,  Cornelia  S.  An  American 
idyll:  the  life  of  Carleton  H.  Parker.     Houghton,   1918. 

An  intimate  revelation. 


RUSSIAN  LIFE 

These  are  interesting  because  they  throw  light  on  Russian 
life  as  well  as  revealing  personalities  of  force. 

Aksakov,    Sergei    Timofeievich.      A    Russian    gentleman;    tr, 
from  the  Russian  by  J.  D.  Dufif.     Longmans,  1917. 

Years  of  childhood;  tr.  from  the  Russian  by  J.  D.  Duff. 


Longmans,  1916. 

Russian  schoolboy ;  tr.  from  the  Russian  by  J.  D.  Dufif, 


Longmans,  1917. 

The  first  volume  is  the  half  imaginary  memoir  of  the  author's  grand- 
father, Stephen  Mihailovitch,  and  at  the  same  time  a  perfect  picture  of 
life  on  a  large  Russian  estate  during  the  time  of  Catharine  the  Great. 


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The  second  and  third  volumes,  very  quietly,  but  with  much  charm  bring 
the  author  through  his  rifteenth  year.  They  were  written  in  Aksakov's 
later  life, 

Breshkovsky,  Catherine.  The  little  grandmother  of  the  Rus- 
sian revolution;  ed.  by  Alice  Stone  Blackwell.  Little, 
1917. 

Intimate  pictures  of  peasant  life  and  later  the  life  in  a  Siberian  prison 
all  reveal  a  personality  of  charm  and  strength. 

Dostoevsky,  Fyodor.  Murry,  John  Middleton.  Fyodor  Dos- 
toevsky :  a  critical  study.    Seeker,  1916. 

Kropotkin,  Peter  Alexeievitch.  Autobiography  of  a  revolu- 
tionist.   Houghton,  1899. 

The  book  abounds  in  instructive  pictures  of  Russian  life  and  character. 
Done  with  imconscious  art. — Dial. 

Tolstoy,  Leo,  Count.  Ferris,  George  Herbert.  Leo  Tolstoy, 
the  grand  mujik;  a  study  in  personal  evolution.  Unwin, 
1898. 

SCIENCE 

Other  phases  of  this  subject  will  be  found  under  Evolution 
and  Nature  Loners. 

Agassiz,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Cary.  Paton,  Lucy  Allen.  Elizabeth 
Gary  Agassiz,  a  biography.     Houghton,  1919. 

This  is  a  complement  to  the  biography  of  Agassiz,  so  definitely  did 
Mrs.  Agassiz  supplement  her  husband's  life. 

Agassiz,  Louis.  Agassiz,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Gary.  Louis  Agas- 
siz, his  life  and  correspondence.     Houghton,  1893. 

From  his  earliest  days  in  Switzerland  until  her  husband's  work  is 
finished.  Mrs.  Agassiz  tells  a  story  of  his  life  in  which  his  work  was  the 

dominating  factor. 

Galton,  Francis.     ^lemories  of  ray  life.     Dutton,  1909. 

A  pioneer  of  eugenics,  problems  of  biology  and  heredity  absorbed  many 
years  of  Francis  Galton's  life. 

Pumpelly,  Raphael.     My  reminiscences.     2  v.     Holt,  1918. 

A  distinguished  mining  engineer  tells,  with  rich  detail  and  humor,  of 
student  days  in  German}-  sixt>'  years  ago,  adventures  in  Corsica,  pros- 
pecting in  Arizona  during  the  Indian  Wars,  and  in  unknown  Japan;  of 
early  explorations  along  the  Chinese  Wall,  crossing  Siberia  alone,  locating 
the  Gogebic  Iron  Range,  and  much  else,  strange  and  absorbing. — Frederic 
G.  Melcher. 


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THE  SEA 

Conrad,  Joseph.    A  personal  record.    Harper,  1912. 

The  chronological  events  in  Conrad's  life  are  not  quite  clear  but  the 
fascinating  portrayal  of  the  adventures  of  the  early  life  of  the  novelist 
give  us  his  personality  with  greatest  clearness. 

Dana,  Richard  Henry.    Adams,  Charles  Francis,  II.    Richard 
Henry  Dana.    Houghton,  1890. 

A  large  part  of  this  book  is  autobiography  in  form  of  a  diary.  It  has 
all  of  the  thrill  of  "Two  years  before  the  mast,"  which  is  the  story  of 
an  early  experience  of  Mr.  Dana's. 

Evans,  Robley   Dungleson.     A  sailor's   log;  recollections   of 
forty  years  of  naval  life.    Appleton,  1901. 

An  admiral's  log.    Appleton,  1910. 

A  sequel  to  the  first  title  forming  with  it  an  autobiography  which  is  a 
story  of  our  Navy  during  the  late  nineteenth  and  early  twentieth  centuries. 

Farragut,  David  Glasgow.    Mahan,  Alfred  T.    Admiral  Farra- 
gut.    Appleton,  1901. 

An  ideal  piece  of  brief  biography.  The  subject  is  excellent,  the  author 
perfectly  qualified  to  treat  it  and  the  treatment  itself  well  calculated  to 
inspire  interest  and  just  admiration  for  the  subject. — /.  H.  Lamed. 

Jones,  John  Paul.    DeKoven,  Anna  Farwell.    The  life  and  let- 
ters of  John  Paul  Jones.    2  v.     Scribner,  1913. 

Nelson,  Horatio.    Southey,  Robert.    Life  of  Nelson ;  introduc- 
tion by  Henry  Newbolt.    Houghton,  1916. 

A  holiday  edition  of  this  popular  biography  recalls  that  it  is  unreliable 
as  history  but  valuable  as  literature  and  filled  with  the  air  of  the  sea. 


SELF  STUDIES 

Subjective  analysis  written  "as  if  no  one  in  the  world  were 
to  read  them,  yet  with  the  purpose  of  being  read." 

Amiel,  Henri  Frederic.     Amiel's  journal;  tr.  by  Mrs.  Hum- 
phry Ward.    New  ed.    Macmillan,  1915. 

'Journee 

Illuminee 
Riant  soleil  d'avril 
En  quel  songe 

Se  Plonge 
Mon  coeur,  et  que 

veut-il.' 


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Augustine,  Saint.  Confessions,  with  an  English  translation  by 
W.  Watts,  1631.  (Loeb  classical  library.)  2  v.  Putnam, 
1912. 

To  study  one's  self  for  the  glory  of  God,  the  humiliation  of  one's  pwn 
soul,  and  the  aid  of  other  poor  stumbling  creatures,  this  is  Augustine's 
greatest  thought — it  is  gloriously  full  and  perfect. — Anna  Robeson  Burr. 

Bashkirtseff,  Marie.  Journal :  new  American  ed.  translated  by 
Mary  J.  Serrano.    Button,  1919. 

Gladstone  called  this  autobiography — "a  book  without  a  parallel." 

Cummings,  Bruce  Frederick  (W.  N.  P.  Barbellion,  pseud.). 
Journal  of  a  disappointed  man.     Doran,  1919. 

In  this  diary  of  an  intensely  egotistical  young  naturalist,  tragically 
caught  by  the  creeping  approach  of  death,  we  have  one  of  the  most  mov- 
ing records  of  the  youthful  aspects  of  our  universal  struggle. — H.  G. 
Wells  in  the  introduction. 

Rousseau,  Jean  Jacques,     Confessions,  2  v.     Lippincott,  1905. 

It  is  impossible  to  believe  that  a  purely  morbid  attraction  has  made  the 
fortune  of  this  book — which,  after  all,  is  more  full  of  the  joy  of  life,  of 
a  fresh  and  honest  realism,  than  it  is  of  psychological  confidences.  Its 
claim  rests  first  on  its  sincerity. — Arthur  MacDowall. 


SELF-MADE  MEN 

Franklin,  Benjamin.  The  autobiography  of  Benjamin  Frank- 
lin, the  unmutilated  and  correct  version  comp.  and  ed. 
with  notes  by  John  Bigelow.     Putnam,  1910. 

This  autobiography  traces  for  us  the  growth  of  personal  thrift  into 
communal  economy  ...  of  individual  industry  into  a  spirit  fit  to  animate 
a  people.  .    .    . — Anna  Robeson  Burr. 

Girard,  Stephen.  McMaster,  J.  B.  Life  and  times  of  Stephen 
Girard,  mariner  and  merchant.     2  v.     Lippincott,  1918. 

Girard  was  a  cabin  boy  on  a  French  vessel  in  his  childhood.  In  1812 
he  was  the  greatest  merchant  prince  of  his  day. 

Hill,  James  Jerome.  Pyle,  J.  G.  Life  of  James  J.  Hill.  2  v. 
Doubleday,  1917. 

Without  displaying  many  of  them  Dr.  Pyle  has  had  access  to  the  letters 
and  diaries  of  Dr.  Hill  and  has  freely  used  autobiographic  dictations. 
Only  Dr.  Oberholtzer's  "Jay  Cooke"  gives  financial  history  for  the  rail- 
roads with  equal  detail  and  accuracy. — F.  L.  Paxson  in  American  Histor- 
ical Reviezv. 


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McClure,  S.  S.    My  autobiography.     Stokes,  1914. 

The  rise  from  the  privations  of  the  peasant  life  in  Ireland  to  a  success- 
ful editorship  in  America  is  the  story  of  S.  S.  McClure. 

Noguchi,  Yone.    The  story  of  Yone  Noguchi.    Jacobs,  1915. 

An  entertaining  autobiography  of  the  Japanese  poet  which  reminds  one 
in  its  sequence  of  events — the  days  of  drudgery  in  California,  the  visit  to 
Chicago  and  the  East  and  the  experiences  in  London — as  well  as  in  its 
charmingly  frank  and  ingenuous  style,  of  his  friend — Markino's  account 
of  his  own  life. — A.  L.  A.  Booklist. 

Strathcona,  Lord.    Willson,  Beckles.     Life  of  Lord  Strathcona 
and  Mount  Royal.     2  v.     Houghton,  1915. 

No  figure  stands  out  more  prominently  in  the  nineteenth  century  devel- 
opments of  Canadian  history.  Sheer  force  of  character  made  Donald 
Alexander  Smith  promiment. 


SOCIAL  SERVICE 

The  causes  for  which  they  worked  dominate  very  largely  the 
lives  of  these,  so  that  the  records  of  one  become  also  the  history 
of  the  other.  Other  similar  problems  will  be  found  discussed 
under  the  headings  Americanization,  Economic  Problems  and 
Missions. 

Bagehot,  Walter.  Barrington,  Mrs.  E.  I.  W.  Life  of  Walter 
Bagehot.     Longmans,  1914. 

He  had  social  imagination.  For  minds  with  this  gift  of  sight,  there  is 
a  quick  way  opened  to  the  heart  of  things. — Woodrow  Wilson. 

Baldwin,  William  Henry,  jr.  Brooks,  John  Graham.  An 
American  citizen:  William  Henry  Baldwin,  jr.  Hough- 
ton, 1910. 

A  man  may  succeed  in  big  business  and  keep  his  moral  integrity.  A 
railroad  official  did  subordinate  his  work  to  his  interest  in  social  reform 
but  his  work  as  an  official  was  successful. 

Barnett,  Samuel  Augustus.  Barnett,  Mrs.  Henrietta  (Row- 
land). Canon  Barnett:  his  life,  work  and  friends.  2  v. 
Houghton,  1919. 

Canon  Barnett  was  one  of  England's  greatest  social  workers  and  with 
his  wife  inspired  the  University  Settlement  idea. 

Barton,  Clara.  Epler,  P.  H.  The  life  of  Clara  Barton.  Mac- 
millan,  1915. 

Latterly,  the  great  interest  to  the  movement  that  Clara  Barton  inaug- 
urated has  brought  new  value  to  this  biography. 


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Jex-Blake,  Sophia.    Todd,  Margaret  Georgia.     Life  of  Sophia 
Jex-Blake.     Macmillan,  1918. 

The  Red  Cross  in  England  had  no  more  ardent  exponent  than  this  re- 
markable nurse. 


Nightingale,  Florence.     Cook,  Edward  Tyas.     Life  of  Flor- 
ence Nightingale.     2  v.     Macmillan,  1913. 

The  story  of  Florence  Nightingale's  life  is  valuable  as  a  part  of  the 
history  of  civilization  but  chiefly  it  is  of  significance  as  portraying  through 
her  own  words  and  acts  the  character  of  the  woman  as  no  mere  analysis 
could  portray  it. — North  American  Review. 

Washington,  Booker  T.    Up  from  slavery:  an  autobiography. 
Doubleday,  1901. 


THE  SOUTH 

Without  reference  to  period,  the  lighter  memoirs  that  reveal 
the  manners  of  the  South  are  found  here.  Under  the  War  Be- 
tween THE  States  will  be  found  others. 

Avary,  Myrta  Lockett,  ed.     A  Virginia  girl  in  the  Civil  war, 
1861-1865.    Appleton,  1903. 

The  wife  of  a  Confederate  oflficer  relates  the  sort  of  things  that  are 
the  background  of  history.    Drama  and  humor  abound  in  these  experiences. 

Harris,  Joel  Chandler.    Harris,  Julia  Collier.     Life  and  letters 
of  Joel  Chandler  Harris.    Houghton,  1918. 

"Uncle  Remus"  was  the  creation  of  a  genius  who  though  of  international 
fame  seldom  left  his  southern  home. 


Lee,  Robert  E.     Recollections  and  letters.     Doubleday,  1904. 

Pryor,  Mrs.  Sara  Agnes  (Rice).    My  day:  reminiscences  of  a 
long  life.     Macmillan,  1909. 

Charming  and  sincere  tales  of  the  days  before  the  war  in  Virginia. 
The  war  between  the  states  and  social  life  in  New  York  in  post-bellum 
days. 

Washington,  George.     Wister,  Owen.     Seven  ages  of  Wash- 
ington.    Macmillan,  1907. 

Washington,  in  this  book,  is  the  man — The  Virginian. 


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THE  STAGE 

Bernhardt,  Sarah.    Memoirs  of  my  life.    Appleton,  1907. 
Purely  objective  memoirs  of  a  remarkable  woman  and  a  great  artist. 

Booth,    Edwin.      Winter,   William.      Life    and    art   of    Edwin 
Booth.  Macmillan,  1894. 

Frohman,  Charles.     Marcosson,  I.   F.  and  Frohman,  Daniel. 
Charles  Frohman,  manager  and  man.     Harper,  1911. 

Goldoni,  Carlo.    Autobiography.     Houghton,  1905. 

Lord  Byron  thought  Goldoni's  autobiography  the  best  in  the  world. 
Goethe  enjoyed  it.  He  typifies  for  us  the  Venetian  in  literature.  His  life 
was  gay,  busy,  and  unvexed,  and  one  cannot  help  being  glad  that  he  left 
the  world  before  the  Revolution — the  French — came  to  dim  his  sun. — 
Anna  Robeson  Burr. 

Gozzi,  Carlo,  conte.    Useless  memoirs,  published  from  humil- 
ity; tr.  by  John  Addington  Symonds.    2  v.    Nimmo,  1889. 

An  interesting  commentary  on  Venetian  life,  the  Italian  stage,  and  decay- 
ing Italy. — Anna  Robeson  Burr. 

Gwyn,  Nell.    Cunninghame,  Peter.    The  story  of  Nell  Gwyn ; 
ed.  by  Gordon  Goodwin.    Grant,  1908. 

In  spite  of  Nell  Gwyn's  rather  colorful  life,  the  English  people  love 
her  memory  and  the  whole  world  is  interested  in  her.  She  played  in  no 
intrigues  and  she  really  loved  Charles. 

This  is  a  new  edition  of  the  book  that  appeared  in  1851. 

Jefferson,  Joseph.     Autobiography.     Century,  1890. 
Whatever  Joseph  Jefferson  did  or  said  was  touched  with  a  subtle  charm. 

Macready,  William  C.     Reminiscences.     Macmillan,  1875. 

To  excel  in  his  art  and  to  provide  for  his  family  were  the  two  fulfilled 
desires  of  the  great  tragedian. 

Mansfield,  Richard.    Wilstach,  Paul.    Richard  Mansfield  :  The 
man  and  the  actor.     Scribner,  1908. 

Mansfield  was  a  complex  of  varied  tastes  and  interests.  His  home  life 
and  many  hobbies  as  well  as  his  great  art  was  shown  clearly  in  this  good 
friend's  story  of  his  life. 

Modjeska,  Helena.     Memories  and  impressions.     Macmillan, 
1910. 

This  is  the  autobiography  of  an  unusually  gifted  and  high-minded 
woman,  whose  career  has  been  associated  with  the  development  of  dra- 


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matic  taste  and  dramatic  art  in  two  continents  during  the  past  fifty  years. 
— A.  L.  A.  Booklist. 

Sothern,  Edward  Hugh.     Melancholy  tale  of  "Me";  my  re- 
membrances.    Scribner,  1918. 

Much  of  the  author's  childhood  is  included  in  these  memories.  The 
later  pictures  are  his  life  on  the  American  and  English  stage. 

Terry,  Ellen.     Story  of  my  life,  recollections  and  reflections. 
Doubleday,  1908. 

A  gay  and  delightful  thing  to  read,  though  after  it  is  finished  one  feels 
that  Ellen  Terry  has  left  much  of  interest  concerning  herself  unsaid,  but 
she  tells  satisfying  things  of  the  men  and  women  she  knew  in  England — 
actors,  painters  and  politicians. 


STIMULATING  LIVES 

"The  armouries   wherein   are   gathered   the   weapons  with 
which  great  battles  are  fought." 

Bright,  John.    Trevelyan,  G.  M.    Life  of  John  Bright.    Hough- 
ton, 1913. 

The  integrity  of  John  Bright  through  all  of  his  public  life  is  so  marked 
that  we  feel  every  enfranchised  citizen  should  read  his  life.  Public  ques- 
tions from  the  Anti-Corn-Law  League  to  the  workingmen's  vote  occupied 
the  best  of  his  ability — and  the  most  active  years  of  his  life. 

Euripedes.     Murray,  Gilbert.     Euripedes  and  his  age.     Holt, 
1910. 

The  most  varied  and  modern  of  the  ancient  Greeks  dealt  with  our  prob- 
lems 2300  years  ago. — William  G.  Ross. 

Fawcett,    Henry.      Holt,    Winifred.      Beacon    for   the    blind. 
Henry  Fawcett.    Houghton,  1914. 

Leslie  Stephen  has  written  a  more  formal  biography  of  the  former  Post- 
master General  of  England,  but  Miss  Holt's  life  of  him  is  more  inspiring 
as  she  tells  of  the  achievements  of  this  courageous  blind  man. 

Goethe,  Johann  Wolfgang  von.     Lewes,  George  Henry.     Life 
and  works  of  Goethe.    Button,  1856. 

Not  any  of  the  later  lives  really  take  the  place  of  this  which  is  a  stan- 
dard for  those  who  do  not  read  German. — William  G.  Ross. 

Keller,  Helen.    Story  of  my  life ;  ed.  by  John  Macy.    Double- 
day,  1903. 

The  autobiography  of  a  remarkable  woman  who  educated  herself  in  the 
face  of  the  greatest  handicaps  nature  could  impose. 


VIEWPOINTS  IN  BIOGRAPHY  57 

Oliphant,  Margaret.  Autobiography  and  letters  arranged  and 
edited  by  Mrs.  Harry  Coghill.    Dodd,  1899. 

No  more  unhappy  life  was  ever  written  than  that  of  Mrs.  OHphant; 
it  ceases  upon  a  note  of  passionate  grief  that  wrings  the  heart !  Yet  never 
was  an  account  more  inspiring  or  invigorating. — Anna  Robeson  Burr. 

Palmer,  Alice  Freeman.  Palmer,  George  Herbert.  The  life  of 
Alice  Freeman  Palmer.     Houghton,  1908. 

"If  my  portrait  of  her  is  correct"  writes  the  author  in  his  preface, 
"invigoration  will  go  forth  from  it  and  disheartened  souls  will  be  cheered." 

Parker,  Carleton  Hubbell.  Parker,  Cornelia  S.  An  American 
idyll :  The  life  of  Carleton  H.  Parker.  Atlantic  monthly 
press,  1919. 

A  love  story  and  a  biography  and  altogether  a  tale  of  life  and  achieve- 
ment. Carleton  Parker  was  singularly  beloved,  singularly  gifted  and 
unusually  capable  in  his  chosen  field.  He  was  a  man  who  stirred  himself 
and  others  from  the  slough  of  mediocrity,  and  his  story,  retold  by  his 
wife,  kindles  the  same  fire  of  animation  in  countless  readers. — Frederic 
Melcher. 

Pasteur,  Louis.  Vallery-Radot,  Rene.  Life  of  Pasteur. 
Doubleday,  1910. 

Stanley,  Sir  Henry  Morton.  Autobiography;  ed.  by  Lady 
Stanley.     Houghton,  1909. 

A  record  sincere  and  moving  in  its  recital  of  deprivation,  discipline, 
endurance  and  achievement — and  one  that  particularly  thrills  youth. 

Trudeau,  Edward  Livingston.  An  autobiography.  Double- 
day,  1915. 

A  patient,  first  in  the  Adirondacks,  later  a  founder  of  the  Saranac 
Laboratory  and  Sanitorium,  Edward  Trudeau  records  his  ideals  and 
achievements  and  reveals  a  personality  bound  to  inspire. 


UNITED  STATES  HISTORY 

Under  Adams  Family,  Political  History  and  War  Be- 
tween THE  States  will  be  found  other  lives  that  illuminate  his- 
torical periods  of  our  country. 

Clay,  Henry.    Schurz,  Carl.    Life  of  Henry  Clay.  2  v.  Hough- 
ton, 1887. 

In  narrating  the  political  struggles  and  changes  of  Clay's  period  the 
author  shows  a  full  recognition  of  the  significance  of  movements  of  popu- 
lar feeling  which  so  frequently  upset  the  balance  of  politicians. — Davis 
Rich  Dewey. 


58  VIEWPOINTS  IN  BIOGRAPHY 

Hay,  John.    Thayer,  William  Roscoe.    The  life  and  letters  of 
John  Hay.     2  v.     Houghton,  1915. 

During  the  Civil  War,  Hay  began  a  career  as  a  diplomat  and  ambas- 
sador that  extended  to  his  death.  His  career  was  filled  with  charm  and 
brilliancy  as  his  letters  well  show. 

Jackson,  Andrew.    Sumner,  William  Graham.    Life  of  Andrew 
Jackson.    Houghton,  1898. 

Jackson's  administration  was  the  turning  point  in  our  history.  Finan- 
cial and  industrial  problems  were  prominent  and  Sumner  deals  with 
them  as  a  master. — William  G.  Ross. 

Marshall,  John.     Beveridge,  Albert  Jeremiah.     Life  of  John 
Marshall.    4  v.    Houghton,  1919. 

With  the  character  of  John  Marshall  as  chief  protagonist,  Senator 
Beveridge  has  vitalized  an  era,  one  of  the  most  interesting  in  American 
history. 

Randolph,  John.    Adams,  Henry.    John  Randolph.    (American 
Statesmen)  Houghton,  1882. 

No  one  knew  the  Randolph  period  better  than  Adams. — William  G.  Ross. 

Washington,  George.    Irving,  Washington.    Life  of  Washing- 
ton.   5  V.     Putnam,  1904. 


WAR  BETWEEN  THE  STATES 

The  books  under  this  heading  have  chiefly  to  do  with  the  more 
serious  and  historical  side  of  the  war  while  The  South  includes 
the  lighter  memoirs  illustrative  of  manners  and  customs. 

Adams,  Charles  Francis.    Adams,  Charles  Francis,  H.    Charles 
Francis  Adams.     (American  Statesmen)  Houghton,  1900. 

The  effect  of  the  war  on  England  and  the  trying  days  of  the  Trent 
affair  is  given  for  the  most  part  in  the  words  of  Mr.  Adams  taken  from 
his  diary. 

Grant,  Ulysses  Simpson.     Personal  memoirs.     2  v.     Century, 
1895. 
A  notable  book  of  surprising  literary  merit. — Willim  G.  Ross. 

Lee,  Robert  E.     Page,  Thomas  Nelson.     Robert  E.  Lee,  man 
and  soldier.    Scribner,  1911. 

The  glory  of  Virginia  life  and  Lee  as  a  Virginia  gentleman,  true  to  his 
State  in  time  of  dissension,  is  the  theme  of  Mr.  Page's  book. 


VIEWPOINTS  IN  BIOGRAPHY  59 

Lincoln,  Abraham.  Charnwood,  Godfrey  Rathbone  Benson, 
1st  baron.  Abraham  Lincoln.  (Makers  of  the  nineteenth 
century)  Holt,  1917. 

Lord  Charnwood  tells  that  he  has  nothing  new  to  contribute  to  the 
already  overwhelming  mass  of  Lincoln  bibliography,  but  he  is  wrong.  The 
viewpoint  of  his  singularly  lofty  mind,  his  clarity  of  vision  and  sympa- 
thetic insight  into  all  that  was  sordid,  tragic  and  uncouth  in  Lincoln's 
environment,  are  in  themselves  new.  Unhampered  by  sectional  prejudice 
and  with  a  masterly  grasp  of  our  political  system,  he  sees  beneath  the 
petty  jealousies  and  rivalries  of  the  times,  and  invariably  brings  good  to 
light  where  good  can  be  found.  His  style  is  simple  and  charming. — Alice 
Hays  Kieffer. 

Nicolay,  J.  G.  Short  life  of  Abraham  Lincoln  con- 
densed from  the  10  v.  edition  of  Nicolay  and  Hay,  1890- 
1902.    Century,  1902. 

Schurz,  Carl.    Abraham  Lincoln.     Houghton,  1891. 


Schurz,  Carl.  Reminiscences  of  Carl  Schurz.  3  v.  Double- 
day,  1907. 

A  German  Revolutionist  of  1848  makes  one  of  the  most  striking  figures 
in  our  national  affairs. 

Welles,  Gideon.  Diary  of  Gideon  Welles,  secretary  of  the 
Navy  under  Lincoln  and  Johnson.    3  v.    Houghton,  1911. 

The  interest  of  Mr.  Welles'  Diary  is  not  attributable  simply  to  the  stu- 
pendous nature  of  the  prolonged  double  crisis  of  the  Civil  \Var  and  Recon- 
struction to  which  it  is  confined.  The  salt  with  which  it  is  so  highly 
flavored  is  chiefly  due  to  the  very  pronounced  individuality  of  the  writer 
and  the  shrewdness,  penetration  and  candor  of  his  intelligence  and  to  the 
fund  of  information  and  experience  which  he  possessed. — North  American 
Review. 

THE  WEST 

The  American  Indian  group  and  the  Middle  West  have  an 
allied  interest  with  these  accounts. 

Boone,  Daniel.     Thwaites,  R.  G.     Daniel  Boone.     Appleton, 

1902. 

Old  manuscripts  are  the  foundation  of  Mr.  Thwaite's  biography  of 
Boone  which  is  distinctly  an  American  document. 

Clark,  George  Rogers.  English,  William  Hayden.  Conquest 
of  the  country  northwest  of  the  river  Ohio,  in  1778-1783 
and  the  life  of  General  George  Rogers  Clark.  2  v.  Mer- 
rill, 1896. 


60  VIEWPOINTS  IN  BIOGRAPHY 

Custer,  George  Armstrong.    Custer,  Mrs.  E.  B.    Following  the 
guidon.     Harper,  1890. 

Tenting  on  the  plains,  or  General  Custer  in  Kansas  and 


Texas.    Harper,  1895. 

Entertaining  and  accurate  accounts  of  the  pioneer  days   following  the 
Civil  War. 


AUTHOR   INDEX 

Page 

Abbott,    Lyman.      Reminiscences    46 

Abelard,    Pierre.      Love   letters   of  Abclard   and   Heloise 48 

Adamnan,   St.     Life   of   St.   Columba    86 

Adams,   B.   K.     American  spirit    26 

Adams,    C.    F.    II.      Autobiography 7 

— '■ Charles    Francis   Adams    , 7,  58 

Richard    Henry    Dana    51 

Adams,   Henry.      Education  of   Henry   Adams 8,  19 

John    Randolph    58 

Adams,   John   &   Abigail.      Letters 7 

Ady,    Julia.      Beatrice    d'Este    48 

Isabella  d'Este    48 

Agassiz,   E.    C.      Louis    Agassiz    60 

Aksakov.   S.   T.     Russian   gentleman    49 

Russian   school   boy    15,  49 

Years   of   childhood    14,  49 

Aldis,  Janet.     Queen  of  letter  writers 24 

Allen,   A.    V.    G.      Life   of    Phillips    Brooks    47 

Allier,    Raoul    and    Mrs.    Raoul.      Roger   AUier 26 

Amiel,   Henri.     Amiel's  journal   51 

Andersen,    H.    C.      Story    of   my    lif e 15 

Anderson,    Mary.     A    few   memories 13 

Antin,   Mary.      Promised    land    10 

Armstrong,    Maitland.      Day   before   yesterday 11,  39 

Arnold,   Matthew.      Letters    81 

Augustine,    Saint.     Confessions    52 

Avary,    Myrta.      Virginia   girl   in   the   Civil   War 54 

Babbitt,    G.    F.      Norman    prince    ■. 27 

Balfour,    Graham.     Life   of   Robert   Louis   Stevenson 29 

Bancroft,    Elizabeth.      Letters    from    England 20 

Barbellion,    W.    N.    P.,    see    Cummings,    Bruce    Frederick 

Barnett,  Henrietta.     Canon   Harnett   63 

Barrie,  J.  M.     Margaret  Ogilvy 14 

Barrington,   E.   I.   W.      Life  of  Walter  Bagehot 53 

Bashkirtseff,     Marie.       Journal     62 

Beesly,  A.  H.     Sir  John   Franklin 8 

Begbie,    Harold.      Life   of    Gen.    Wm.    Booth    46 

Benson,    A.    C.      Hugh    13 

Benton,   T.    H.     Thirty  years   view 43 

Berger,  Pierre.     William  Blake  35 

Berlioz,    Hector.      Autobiography    33 

Bernhardt,   Sarah.     Memoirs   of  my   life 55 

Beveridge,  A.  J.     Life  of  John  Marshall 58 

Birrell,  Augustine.     Frederick  Locker-Lampson   31 

Bisland,  Elizabeth.     Lafcadio  Hearn   40 

Bispham,  David.     Quaker  singer's  recollections   83 

Blaine,   Harriet.      Letters    24 

Bordeaux,   Henry.     Georges   Guynemer    27 

Borrow,    George.       Lavengro 16 

Boswell,  James.     Life  of  Samuel  Johnson   28 

Brandes,   Georg.      Reminiscences    16 

Breshkorsky,  Catherine.     Little  grandmother  of  the  Russian  revolution 50 

Brooks,  J.  G.     An  American  citizen:   William  Henry  Baldwin  jr 53 

Brown,  John.     Marjorie  Fleming 15 

Browning,   Robert  and  Elizabeth.     Letters 49 

Bunyan,   John.     Grace  abounding    47 

Burge,  C.  O.     Adventures  of  a  civil  engineer 8 

Burne- Jones,    Georgiana.      Memorials   of   Edward   Burne- Jones 44 

Burnett,  F.  H.     The  one  I  knew  best  of  all 15 

Burney,    Frances.      Diary   and   letters 21 

Campbell,   R.   J.     Spiritual  pilgrimage   47 

Carlyle,   Thomas.      First  forty  years  of  life 28 

Life   in    London    28 

Life    of    John    Sterling    48 

Carpenter,    Edward.      My   days   and   dreams 17 

Carpenter,  W.   B.      Further   pages  of  my   life 20 

Some  pages  of  my  life   20 

Cellini,  Benvenuto.     Life  8,  11,  48 

Chapin,  Harold.     Letters  of  a  dramatist 26 

61 


62  AUTHOR  INDEX 

Page 

Chapman,   Victor.     Letters   from   France 26 

Charnwood,  Lord.     Abraham  Lincoln   '. ." 69 

Cheney,   E.   L.     Louisa  May   Alcott    88 

Chesterfield,  Earl  of.     Letters  to  his  son 40 

Clark,  J.  S.     Life  and  letters  of  John  Fiske 23 

Clarke,   Caroline.      Village  life  in   America 39 

Clarke,   J.    F.     Autobiography    47 

Clarke,  Mary  Cowden.     My  long  life 31 

Cohen,   Rose.     Out  of  the  shadow    10 

CoUingwood,  S.  D.     Life  and  letters  of  Lewis  Carroll IS 

Colvin,  Sir  Sidney.     John  Keats 42 

Conrad,  Joseph.     Personal  record   61 

Cook,  Sir  E.  T.     Delane  of  the  Times 45 

Life  of  Florence  Nightingale   36,  54 

Cornwallis-West,   Jennie.     Reminiscences    21 

Cortissoz,  Royal.     John  La  Farge  12 

Creevey,  Caroline.     Daughter  of  the  Puritans 38 

Cross,  J.  W.     George  Eliot's  life    28 

Cummings,   B.   F.     Journal  of  a  disappointed  man    52 

Cunninghame,  Peter.     The  story  of  Nell  Gwyn 55 

Custer,  E.  B.     Following  the  guidon  60 

Tenting   on   the   plains 60 

D Arblay,  Mme.     see  Burney,   Frances    21 

Darwin,  C.  R.     Life  and  letters   23 

Davis,  R.  H.     Adventures  and  letters   8 

DeKoven,  A.  F.     Life  and  letters  of  John  Paul  Jones 51 

DeQuincey,   Thomas.     Confessions   of   an   English   opium  eater 16 

Joan  of  Arc   36 

Dickey,  Marcus.     Youth  of  James  Whitcomb  Riley 32 

d"Indy,    Vincent.      Cesar    Franck     34 

Dowson,   M.   E.   and   Haggard,   A.   M.     Michael   Fairless 35 

Eastman,    C.    A.      From   the   deep   wood   to   civilization 9 

Indian    boyhood    9 

Eliot,    C.    W.      John    Gilley    37,  38 

Emerson,  R.  W.     Journals   35 

English,  W.  H.     Conquest  of  the  country  northwest  of  the  river  Ohio 59 

Epler,  P.  H.     Life  of  Clara  Barton   53 

Evans,    R.    D.      Admiral's    log 51 

Sailor's   log    61 

Evelyn,    John.      Diary    21 

Life  of  Margaret  Godolphin   13 

Fagan,  J.  O.     Autobiography  of  an  individualist 18 

Fay,  Amy.      Music  study  in   Germany 34 

Finck,   H.    T.      Edward   Grieg    34 

Fleury,  Comte.     Memoirs  of  Empress  Eugenie   23 

Flynt,  Josiah,  see  Willard,   J.   F 19 

Forster,    John.      Life   of  Charles    Dickens 28 

Foster,   J.  W.     Diplomatic   memoirs    18 

France,   Anatole.     Life   of   Joan   of  Arc 36 

My   friend's   book    15 

Francis,   J.   C.     John    Francis    45 

Franklin,    Benjamin.      Autobiography    52 

Eraser,    Mary.      Diplomatist's    wife    in    many    lands 25 

Reminiscences  of  a  diplomatist's  wife  25 

Froude,  J.  A.     Erasmus   43 

Julius   Csesar    17 

Life  of  Carlyle,  see  Carlyle,  Thomas    28 

Fuller,   Margarett.     A   New   England   childhood 38 

Gallatin,    James.     Diary    18,  23 

Galton,   Francis.     Memories  of  my  life   8,  50 

Gardner,    Charles.      Vision    and    vesture 85 

Garland,  Hamlin.     Son  of  the  middle  border 82 

Garner,   J.    L.      Caesar   Borgia    48 

Gaskell,   E.   C.     Life  of  Charlotte  Bronte ". 27 

Geronimo.     His  life   10 

Gibbon,    Edward.      Autobiography 28 

Gilman,    Laurence.      Edward    MacDowell 34 

Gissing,   George.     Private  papers  of  Henry   Ryecroft 17 

Goethe,   J.   W.   von.     Poetry   and   truth 42 

Goldoni,    Carlo.      Autobiography    55 

Gorky,  Maxim.     In  the  world  15 

My  childhood   15 

Gosse,   Edmund.     Father  and  son    15,  41 

Life  of  Algernon  Charles  Swinburne 30 

Gozzi,    Carlo.      Useless    memoirs 55 

Grant,  U.  S.     Personal  memoirs  68 


AUTHOR  INDEX  68 

Page 

Greenslet,  Ferris.     Life  of  Thomas  Bailey  Aldrich 27 

Grenfell,   W.   T.      Labrador  doctor    33 

Hale,  E.  E.,  jr.     Life  and  letters  of  Edward  Everett  Hale 10 

Hale,    Susan.      Letters     38 

Hamel,   Frank.     Lady  Hester  Lucy  Stanhope    14 

Hamilton,  Anthony.     Memoirs  of  Count  Gramont 25 

Hare,  A.   J.  C.     Story  of  my  life   47 

Harper,   Ida.     Life  of  Susan  B.   Anthony 41 

Harper,  J.  R.     House  of  Harper   45 

Harris,  Julia.     Joel  Chandler  Harris    54 

Hearn,   Setsu.     Reminiscences  of  Lafcadio   Hearn 13 

Herbert   of   Cherbury.      His    life    8 

Herrick,    F.    H.     Audubon,    the   naturalist    37 

Higginson,    T.    W.      Cheerful    yesterdays    38 

Hobson,   Elizabeth.      Recollections   of   a   happy   life 25 

Holland,    Bernard.     Memoir  of    Kenelm   Henry   Digby 47 

Holt,    Winifred.      Beacon   for    the   blind    56 

Howard,    O.    O.      Nez    Perce    Joseph 10 

Howells,   W.   D.     Years  of  my  youth 32 

Hubbard,   E.   D.     Ann   of   Ava    33 

Hudson,   W.   H.     Far   away   and   long  ago 15,  37 

The  man.   Napoleon    23 

Hughes,    Katharine.      Father    LaCombe 10,  33 

Huneker,  J.  G.     Chopin   34 

Steeple     Jack     46 

Hunt,   Leigh.     Autobiography    31 

Hunt,    W.    H.      Pre-Raphaelitism    44 

Huxley,  Leonard.     Life  and  letters  of  Thomas   Henry  Huxley 23 

Inness,   George,   II.     Life,   art   and  letters   of   George   Inness 12 

Irvine,    A.    F.     My   lady   of    the   chimney   corner 41 

Irving,   Washington.     Life  of  Washington    68 

Oliver   Goldsmith    ^° 

Jacks,  L.   P.     Life  and  letters  of  Stopford  Brooke 31 

J  ames,    Henry.      A   small    boy    and    others ^^ 

Middle   years    °^ 

Notes  of  a  son  and  brother °^ 

Jefferson,   Joseph.      Autobiography    o5 

Jeffries,    Richard.      Story   of    my    heart 1° 

Jewett,    S.    O.      Letters    f° 

Johnson,  W.   F.     Red  record  of  the  Sioux 1" 

Jones,   H.    F.      Life   of   Samuel   Butler 27 

Keller,   Helen.     Story   of   my  Hfe oo 

Kilmer,    Joyce.      Joyce    Kilmer    ^^ 

Krasinska,    Franciszka.      Journal    1"^ 

Kropotkin,   P.   A.      Memoi-ies   of   a  revolutionist 17,  50 

Lamb,    Charles.     Letters    j4 

Landor,  W.  S.     Pericles  and  Aspasia 49 

Larcom,    Lucy.      New   England    girlhood 38 

Lawless,  Emily.     Maria  Edgeworth   20 

Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich,   Eleanor.     Pleasures   and  palaces 25 

Lear,    Edward.      Letters    l^ 

Lee,    Robert    E.      Recollections    • °4 

Lee,  Sidney.     Life  of  Shapespeare ^^ 

Legros,   G.   U.     Fabre,   poet   of  science 37 

Lehmann,   Lilli.     My  path  through  life 34 

Leith,    Compton.      Apologia    diilidentis     ^^ 

de'Lespinasse,   Julie.      Letters    •  49 

Lewes,  G.  H.     Life  and  works  of  Goethe 56 

Livingstone,  W.   P.     Mary  Slessor   33 

Lockhard,    J.   G.      Sir   Walter   Scott -» 

Loliee,    Frederic.      Prince   Talleyrand    44 

Loti,  Pierre.     Story  of  a  child J° 

Lounsbury,   T.   R.     Life   and  times   of  Tennyson 3^ 

Lowell,    J.    R.      Letters 29 

Lucas,  E.   V.     Life  of  Charles   Lamb   14 

Lucas,   Reginald.     Lord  Glenesk    45 

Lucy,   Sir  Henry.     Sixty  years   in   the   wilderness 9 

Macbean,    Leila.     Marjorie    Fleming    }° 

McCarthy,  Justin.     An  Irishman's  story   f^ 

Reminiscences    T~ 

McClure,   S.   S.     My  autobiography 63 

McMaster,  J.  B.     Stephen  Girard   o2 

Macready,    W.    C.      Reminiscences     47,  5o 

Mahan,    A.    T.      Admiral    Farragut    51 

Maitland,  F.  W.     Life  and  letters  of  Leslie  Stephen 32 


64  AUTHOR  INDEX 

Page 

Marcosson,  I.  F.,  and  Frohman,  Daniel.     Charles  Frohman 65 

Markino,    Yoshio.     Japanese   artist    in    London 81 

Marsh,   E.  H.     Rupert   Brooke   26.  42,  45 

Martineau,   Harriet.     Autobiography    81 

Matthews,  Brander.     These  many  years 39 

Meredith,    George.      Letters     24,  32 

Meynell,   Everard.     Francis   Thompson    36 

Mill,   J.  S.     Autobiography    19,  49 

Millais,   J.   G.     Life   of   Frederick   Courceney   Selous 9,  37 

Mistral,    Frederic.      Memoirs 23 

Mitchell,    Maria.      Life   and   letters    41 

Modjeska,   Helena.      Memories   and   impressions 55 

Montagu,    Lady    Mary.      Letters    46 

Monypenny,  W.  F.,  and  Buckle,  G.  E.     Life  of  Benjamin  Disraeli 21 

Moody,    W.    V.     Letters    14 

Moore,  George.     Hail  and  farewell   29 

Moore,  Sir  John.     Diary   9 

Moore,   Thomas.      Letters    of   Lord    Byron 27 

Morley,  John.     Life  of  William  Ewart  Gladat^-ie 22 

Oliver  Cromwell 43 

Recollections   22,  43 

Morse,    J.    T.,    jr.      John    Adams 7 

Life  of  John   Quincy  Adams   ^ 

Muir,   John.     Story  of  my  childhood   16,  37 

Murray,   Gilbert.      Euripedes   and  his   age 66 

Murry,  J.  M.     Tyodor  Dostoevsky   60 

Newman,  J.   H.     Apologia  pro  vita  sua 47 

Nicolay,   J.    G.     Short   life   of   Abraham   Lincoln 59 

Nivedita.      The    master    as    I    saw    him 86,  40 

Noguchi,  Yone.     Story  of  Yone  Noguchi   53 

Norton,  C.   E.     Letters   29 

Ohphant,  Margaret.     Annals  of  a  publishing  house 44 

Autobiography 67 

Osborn,  C.  S.     Iron  hunter  9.  32 

Page,  'j.'.   N.     Robert  E.   Lee    58 

Paine,  A.  B.     Mark  Twain    30 

Palmer,  G.  H.     Life  of  Alice  Freeman  Palmer  19,  49,  57 

Parker,    Cornelia.     An    American    idyll 49,  67 

Pater,  Walter.     Child  in  the  house 16 

Paton,   L.  A.     Elizabeth  Cary  .Agassiz   50 

Pears,   Sir  Edwin.     Abdul   Hamid 40 

Forty  years  in  Constantinople 40 

Pennell,   Elizabeth.     Charles   Go airey   Leland    28 

Pennell,  E.  R.  and  Joseph.     Life  of  James  McNeill  Whistler 12 

Pepys,    Samuel.      Diary    22,  25,  46 

Ferris,  G.  H.     Leo  Tolstoy   60 

Perry,    Bliss.      Walt    Whitman    17 

Pryor,   Sara.      My   day    64 

Pumpelly,    Raphael.      Reminiscences    9,  50 

Putnam,  G.  H.     Memories  of  my  youth 45 

Memories  of  a  publisher   45 

Pyle,   J.  G.     Life  of  James  J.  HiU 52 

Ravage,    M.    E.      American    in    the    making 10 

Renan,  Ernest.     Recollections   16 

Richards,    Laura,  and  Elliot,   Maude.     Julia  Ward   Howe 88 

Rihbany,   A.  M.     Far  journey   10 

Riis,  Jacob.     Making  of  an  American 11 

Roberts,  Lord.     Forty-one  years  in   India 40 

Robertson,  C.  G.     Bismarck   18 

Rolland,  Romain.     Handel   34 

Roof,   K.  M.     Life  and  art  of  William  Merritt  Chase 11 

Roosevelt,    Theodore.      Letters   to   his   children 41 

Roper,  William.     Sir  Thomas  More   22 

Rosebery,   A.   P.     Napoleon    17 

Rossetti,  D.  G.     His  family  letters 44 

Rossetti,  W.  M.     Some   reminiscences    44 

Rousseau,   J.   J.     Confessions    19,  52 

Ruskin,    John.      Praeterita    12 

Sabatier,   Paul,     St.   Francis  of  Asissi    86 

Saint   Gaudens,    Augustus.      Reminiscences    12,  24 

St.   Helier,   Mary.     Memoirs   of   fifty   years 25 

Sanborn,    F.    B.      Henry    D.   Thoreau    87 

Sanchez,  Mrs.  Nellie.     Life  of  Mrs.  Robert  Louis  Stevenson 46 

Sand,   George.     History  of  my  life    29 


AUTHOR  INDEX  65 

Page 

Sandeman,    G.    A.    C.      Metternich 18 

Sangster,    Margaret.     Autobiography    39 

Schumann,   Robert.      Letters    34 

Schurz,    Carl.      Abraham    Lincoln    59 

Life    of    Henry    Clay    67 

Reminiscences     11,  59 

Scudder,  H.  E.     James  Russell  Lowell   38 

Seeley,   J.   R.     Life  and  times   of  Stein    18 

Selincourt,   Hugh  de.     Great  Raleigh    23 

Sevigne,   Mvie.    de.      Letters    41 

Sharp,    Elizabeth.      William    Sharp    29 

Shaw,   A.   H.     Story  of  a  pioneer 42 

Shelley,    H.    C.      Gilbert   White    37 

Sladen,  Douglas.     Twenty  years  of  my  life 25 

Sloane,  W.  M.     Life  of  Napoleon   17 

Smith,  C.  A.     O.   Henry   39 

Smith,    Goldwin.       Reminiscences     20 

Smith,   H.   J.      Letters    46 

Sothern,    E.    H.      Melancholy   tale    of    "Me"    56 

Southey,    Robert.      Life   of    Nelson    51 

Spencer,    Herbert.      Autobiography    20 

Stacpoole,    H.    de    V.      Villon 24 

Stanley,  A.  P.     Life  of  Thomas  Arnold 19 

Stanley,    Sir    Henry.      Autobiography    9,  67 

Stanton,    Theodore  ed.     Rosa  Bonheur    11,  37 

Steiner,  E.  A.     From  alien  to  citizen • 11 

Stephens,   Winifred.     Madame  Adam    41 

Stevenson,   R.   A.    M.      Velasquez 12 

Stevenson,  R.  L.     Memoir  of  Fleeming  Jenkin 13 

Letters    24 

Stirling,    A.   M.   W.     Coke  of  Norfolk    ....... ...............'.'..'..'.'...'.'.  .'.20,  21 

Stokes,   Hugh.     Francisco  Goya    12 

Strahan,    James.      The    marechale     41 

Sumner,  W.   G.     Life  of  Andrew  Jackson    58 

Symonds,   J.   A.     Life  of  Michelangelo   Buonarroti    12 

Taf  t,    Helen.       Recollections     • 25 

Tagore,    Rabindranath.      My    reminiscences    40 

Tallentyre,    S.   G.     Life  of   Voltaire    24 

Tennyson,   H.   T.     Alfred,   Lord   Tennyson 30 

Teresa,   St.     Life  of  Saint  Teresa    36 

Terry,   Ellen.      Story   of   my   Hfe    56 

Thayer,  W.   R.     Life  and  letters  of  John  Hay 24,  58 

Life  and  times   of   Cavour    43 

Theodore   Roosevelt    44 

Thomas,   Rose.     Memoirs   of   Theodore  Thomas 35 

Thompson,    Francis.      Shelley    42 

Thorold,    A.    L.      Life    of   Henry    Labouchere 22,45 

Thwaites,   R.   G.      Daniel   Boone    59 

Todd,   M.   G.     Life  of  Sophia  Jex-Blake 54 

Tolstoy,    Leo.      Childhood,    boyhood   and  youth 16 

Tomita,  Kokei.     Peasant  sage  of  Japan    40 

Trevelyan,   G.    M.      Life   of   John    Bright 21,  56 

Trevelyan,   G.    O.      Early  history   of   Charles   James    Fox 22 

Life  and  letters  of  Lord  Macaulay 22 

TroUope,  Anthony.     Autobiography  30 

Trudeau,    E.    L.      An    autobiography    ~  57 

Tschaikowsky,  Modeste.     Life  and  letters  of  Peter  Tshaikowsky 35 

Vallery-Radot,   Rene.     Life  of   Pasteur 57 

Vedder,    Elihu.      Digressions    12 

Venable,   W.   H.     Buckeye   boyhood    32 

Villari,  Pasquale.      Life  and  times  of  Machiavelli 43 

Savonarola    47 

Waddington,   Mary.     Italian  letters    26 

Letters  of  a  diplomat's  wife 26 

Wallace.  A.   R.     My   life   23 

Wallace,    Lewis.      Lew    Wallace     33 

Wallas,   Graham.      Life   of   Francis    Place    18 

Ward,  Mrs.  Humphry.     Writer's  recollections 3^> 

Watterson,    Henry.      "Marse    Henry"    ^^ 

Welles,    Gideon.      Diary    ^^ 

Wheeler,  B.  I.     Alexander  the  Great n 

Wheeler,  Candace.     Yesterdays  in  a  busy   life 89,  42 

White,   A.   O.      Autobiography    44 

WiUard,  J.  F.     My  life   19 


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Page 

Willson,  Beckles.     Life  of  Lord  Strathcona 63 

Washin^on,  Booker.     Up  from  slavery   54 

Wilstach,    Paul.      Richard    Mansfield    55 

Winter,  William.     Edwin  Booth   55 

Wister,   Owen.     Seven   ages   of   Washington 54 

Woodberry,   G.   E.     Life  of  Edgar  Allan  Poe 29 

Wordsworth,    Dorothy.      Journals    42 

Wordsworth,  William.     The  prelude   43 


SUBJECT  INDEX 


Page 

Abbott,  Lyman    46 

Abdul    Hamid    40 

Abelard,    Pierre    48 

Adam,     Juliette     41 

Adams,    Abigail    7 

Adams,    Briggs    Kilburn    26 

Adams,    Charles    Francis,    1 7,  58 

Adams,   Charles   Francis,   II 7 

Adams,    Henry .8,  19 

Adams,    John     7 

Adams,    John    Quincy    7 

Agassiz,    Mrs.    Elizabeth    Gary 50 

Agassiz,    Louis     50 

Aksakov,    Sergei    14,  15,  49 

Alcott,   Louisa  May   38 

Aldrich,  Thomas  Bailey   27 

Alexander  the  Great   17 

Allier,   Roger    26 

Amiel,    Henri    Frederic 51 

Andersen,    Hans    Christian    15 

Anderson,   Mary    13 

Anthony,   Susan  Brownall   41 

Antin,    Mary    10 

D'Arblay,  Mme.,  see  Burney,  Frances. 

Armstrong,  Maitland   11,  39 

Arnold,   Matthew    31 

Arnold,   Thomas    19 

Aspasia    49 

Audubon,  John   James    37 

Augustine,    Saint    52 

Avary,  Myrta  Lockett 54 

Bagehot,   Walter    53 

Baldwin,    William    Henry,    jr 53 

Bancroft,    Elizabeth     (Davis) 20 

Barnett,    Samuel  Augutus    53 

Barton,    Clara    53 

Bashkirtseff,  Marie 52 

Benson,    Robert   Hugh    13 

Benton,  Thomas  H 43 

Berlioz,    Hector    33 

Bernhardt,   Sarah    55 

Bismarck,  Otto  von   18 

Bispham,    David    33 

Blackwood,  William   44 

Blaine,    Mrs.    Harriet   Bailey    24 

Blake,    WilUam    35 

Bonheur,   Rosa   11.  37 

Boone,   Daniel    59 

Booth,    Edwin    55 

Booth,   William    46 

Booth-Clibborn,   Catherine   41 

Borgia,   Caesar   48 

Borrow,  George  Henry   16 

Borthwick,  Algernon   45 

Brandes,  Georg   15 

Breshkovsky,   Catherine    50 

Bright,  John   21,  56 

Bronte,  Charlotte   27 

Brooke,  Rupert   26,  42,  45 

Brooke,    Stopford    31 

Brooks,    Phillips    47 

Browning,    Elizabeth    49 

Browning  Robert    49 

Bunyan,   John    47 

Burge,   C.   0 8 


Page 

Burne-Jones,   Edward    44 

Burnett,   Frances   Hodgson    15 

Burney,   Frances    21 

Butler,    Samuel    27 

Byron,    Lord    27 

Ca?sar,    Julius    17 

Campbell,  Reginald  John  47 

Carlyle,    Thomas    28 

Carpenter,    Edward    17 

Carpenter,  William  Boyd 20 

Carroll,    Lewis    13 

Cavour,  Camillo  Benso  di,  conte 43 

Cellini,    Benvenuto    8,  11,  48 

Chapin,    Harold     26 

Chapman,  Victor  Emanuel   26 

Chase,  William  Merritt 11 

Chesterfield,   Philip   Dormer  Stanhope, 

ith   earl  of 40 

Chopin,  Frederic   34 

Clark,   George   Rogers    69 

Clarke,    Mrs    Caroline    Cowles     (Rich- 
ards )    89 

Clarke,   James  Freeman   47 

Clarke,   Mary  Cowden   31 

Clay,    Henry     57 

Cohen,  Rose 10 

Coke,   Thomas  William    20,  21 

Columba,   Saint    35 

Conrad,  Joseph   51 

Cornwallis-West,    Mrs.    Jennie 

(Jerome)     21 

Creevey,    Mrs.    Caroline    Alathea 

(Stickney^     38 

Cromwell,    Oliver    43 

Cummings,  Bruce  Frederick  52 

Custer,  George  Armstrong 60 

Dana,   Richard  Henry   51 

Darwin,   Charles   R 23 

Davis,  Richard  Harding   8 

Delane,    John   Thaddeus    45 

De    Quincey,    Thomas    16 

d'Este,  Beatrice 48 

d'Este,  Isabella 48 

Dickens,   Charles    28 

Digby,  Kenelm  Henry 47 

Disraeli,    Benjamin    21 

Dodgson,     Charles    Lutwidge,    see 

Carroll,   Lewis    

Dostoevsky,    Fyodor    60 

Eastman,   Charles   Alexander   9 

Edgeworth,   Maria    20 

Eliot,  George   28 

Emerson,   Ralph  Waldo    35 

Erasmus,    Desiderius    43 

Eugenie,  Empress  of  the  French 23 

Euripedes    56 

Evans,   Robley   Dungleson    51 

Evelyn,    John    21 

Fabre,   Jean    Henri    37 

Fagan,   James  Octavius    18 

Fairless,  Michael   35 

Farragut,  David  Glasgow 51 

Fawcett,    Henry    56 

Fay,  Amy   84 


67 


68 


SUBJECT    INDEX 


Page 

Fiske,   John    23 

Fleming,    Marjorie    15 

Flynt,    Josiah,   see   Willard    Josiah 

Flynt     

Foster,   John  Watson    18 

Fox,   Charles   James    22 

France,    Anatole    15 

Francis   of   Assisi 36 

Francis,  John 45 

Franck,    Cesar   34 

Franklin,  Benjamin   52 

Franklin,   Sir  John    8 

Fraser,  Mrs.  Mary  Crawford   25 

Frohman,    Charles    55 

Gallatin,     James     18,  23 

Gallon,   Francis    8,  50 

Garland,    Hamlin    32 

Geronimo   10 

Gibbon,    Edward    28 

Gilley,    John    37,  38 

Girai-d,   Stephen    52 

Gissing,    George    17 

Gladstone,    William    Ewart    22 

Godolphin,  Margaret    13 

Goethe,  Johann  Wolfgang  von 42,  56 

Goldoni,   Carlo    55 

Goldsmith,     Oliver     28 

Gorky,   Maxim    15 

Gosse,    Edmund    15,  41 

Gosse,   Phihp   Henry    41 

Goya,    Francisco    12 

Gozzi,  Carlo,  conte 55 

Gramont,    Philibert,    comte   de 25 

Grant,   Ulysses  Simpson    58 

Grenfell,  Wilfred  T 33 

Grieg,  Edward 34 

Guynemer,    Georges    27 

Gwyn,   Nell   55 

Hale,    Edward   Everett    10 

Hale,    Susan    38 

Handel,    Georg   Friedrich    34 

Hare,  Augustus  J.   C 47 

Harper,  J.  Rainey    45 

Harris,  Joel  Chandler   54 

Hay,   John    24,  58 

Hearn,    Lafcadio    13,  40 

Heloise   48 

Henry,   0 39 

Herbert   of   Cherbury,   Lord   Edward. .      8 

Higginson,    Thomas    Wentworth 38 

Hill,   James  Jerome   52 

Hobson,    Mrs.    Elizabeth    Kimball 25 

Howe,   Julia  Ward   38 

Howells,    William    Dean    32 

Hudson,   William   Henry    15,  37 

Huneker,    James    Gibbons    46 

Hunt,    Leigh    31 

Hunt,   William   Holman    44 

Huxley,   Thomas   Henry    23 

Inness,  George   12 

Irvine,   Anna    41 

Jackson,    Andrew    58 

James,    Henry    30,  39 

Jefferson,   Joseph    55 

Jeffries,  Richard   16 

Jenkin,   Fleeming    13 

Jewett,  Sara  Orne   38 

Jex-Blake,    Sophia    54 

Joan  of  Arc   36 

Johnson,  Samuel   28 

Jones,  John   Paul    51 

Joseph,  Chief  of  the  Nez  Perce 10 

Judson,  Ann  Hasseltine   33 

Keats,   John    42 

Keller,   Helen    56 

Kilmer,   Joyce    27 


Page 
Krasinska,  Franciszka,  Countess....  13 
Kropotkin,    Peter    Alexeievitch, 

Prince     17,  50 

Labouchere,   Henry    22,  45 

LaCombe,  Albert   10,  33 

La   Farge,   John    12 

Lamb,  Charles   14 

Larcom,    Lucy    38 

Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich,    Eleanor 

Hulda     (Calhoun)     25 

Lear,    Edward    14 

Lee,  Robert  E 54,  58 

Lehmann,    Lilli    34 

Leith,    Compton    17 

Leland,  Charles  Godfrey   28 

d'Lespinasse,    Julie    49 

Lincoln,    Abraham    59 

Locker-Lampson,    Frederick    31 

Loti,     Pierre     16 

Lowell,   James   Russell   29,  38 

Lucy,  Sir  Henry t . . . .     9 

Macaulay,    Thomas   Babington    22 

McCarthy,    Justin     22 

McClure,    S.    S 53 

MacDowell,    Edward     34 

Machiavelli,    Niccolo    43 

Macready,   Wilham   C 47,  55 

Mansfield,    Richard     55 

Markino,  Yoshio   31 

Marshall,    John    58 

Martineau,    Harriet    31 

Matthews,    Brander    39 

Meredith,    George    24,  32 

Metternich,  Prince 18 

Michelangelo  Buonarroti   12 

Mill,    John   Stuart   19,  49 

Mistral,    Frederic    23 

Mitchell,    Maria     41 

Modjeska,  Helena   55 

Montagu    Lady    Mary    (Pierrepont) 

Wortley    46 

Moody,  WilUam   Vaughn    14 

Moore,   George   29 

Moore,  Sir  John 9 

More,    Sir  Thomas 22 

Morley    John     22,  43 

Muir,    John    16,  37 

Napoleon    17,  23 

de    Navarro,    Mtne.,   see   Anderson, 

Mary     

Nelson,    Horatio    51 

Newman,   John   Henry    47 

Nightingale,    Florence    36,  54 

Ninomiya,    Sontoku    40 

Noguchi,    Yone    53 

Norton,   Charles   Eliot   29 

Ogilvy,    Margaret    14 

Oliphant,   Margaret    57 

Osborn,  Chase  Salmon    9,  32 

Palmer,  Alice   Freeman    19,  49,  57 

Parker,   Carleton   Hubbell   49,  57 

Pasteur,    Louis    57 

Pater,    Walter    16 

Pears,  Sir  Edvdn    40 

Pepys.    Samuel    22,  25.  46 

Place,   Francis    18 

Poe,  Edgar  Allan    29 

Porter,  Sydney,  see  Henry,  O. 

Prince,   Norman    27 

Pryor,   Mrs.    Sara  Agnes    (Rice) 54 

Pumpelly,   Raphael    9,  50 

Putnam,    George    Haven     45 

Raleigh,  Sir  Walter  23 

Randolph,    John    58 

Ravage,  Marcus  Eh   10 

Renan,    Ernest    16 


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Rihbany,  Abraham  Mitrie 10 

Riis,   Jacob    11 

Riley,   James  Whitcomb    32 

Roberts    Lord     4(1 

Roosevelt,    Theodore    41,  44 

Rossetti,    Dante    Gabriel    44 

Rossetti,   William   Michael    44 

Rousseau,   Jean   Jacques    19,  52 

Ruskin,    John     12 

Saint  Gaudens,   Augustus    12,  24 

St.    Helier,   Mary    (Stewart-MacKen- 

zie)     Jeune,    Baroness 25 

Sand,   George    29 

Sangster,  Mrs.  Margaret  E.  (Munson)    39 

Savonarola    47 

Schumann,   Robert    34 

Schurz,   Carl    11,  59 

Scott,  Sir  Walter 29 

Selous,    Frederick    Courteney 9,  37 

Sevigne,    Marquise   de    24,  41 

Shakespeare,     William     29 

Sharp,   WilHam    29 

Shaw,    Anna   Howai-d    42 

Shelley,    Percy    Bysshe    42 

Sitting   Bull    10 

Sladen,    Douglas    25 

Slessor,   Mary   Mitchell    33 

Smith,  Goldwin    20 

Smith,  Harry  James 46 

Sothei-n,   Edward   Hugh    56 

Spencer,    Herbert    20 

Stanhope,    Lady   Hester    14 

Stanley,  Sir  Henry  Morton    9,  57 

Stedman,    Edmund   Clarence 38 

Stein,  freiherr  von  18 

Steiner,    Edward    Alfred    11 

Stephen,    Leslie    32 

Sterling,    John    48 

Stevenson,   Robert    Louis    24,  29,  30 


Page 

Stevenson,  Mrs.   Robert  Louis 46 

Strathcona,   Lord    53 

Swinburne,    Algernon    Charles    30 

Taft,  Helen  Herron   25 

Tagore,    Sir    Rabindranath 40 

Talleyrand     44 

Tennyson,    Alfred    30,  32 

Teresa,    Saint     36 

Terry,    Ellen     56 

Thomas,     Theodore     35 

Thompson,    Francis    36 

Thoreau,  Henry  David    37 

Tolstoy,     Leo,    Count 16,  50 

Trollope,   Anthony    30 

Trudeau,   Edward  Livingston    57 

Tschaikowsky,    Peter    Illytch    35 

Twain,   Mark    30 

Vedder,    Elihu    12 

Velasquez     12 

Venable,   William   Henry    32 

Villon,    Frangois    24 

Vivekananda,  swdmi 36,  40 

Voltaire    24 

Waddington,   Mrs.   Mary  A.    (King)..  26 

Wallace,    Alfred    Russell    23 

Wallace,   Lewis    33 

Ward,    Mrs.    Humphry    30 

Washington,    Booker   T 54 

Washington,    George    54,  58 

Watterson,     Henry     44 

Welles,  Gideon   59 

Wheeler,    Mrs.    Candace    39,  42 

Whistler,    James    McNeill 12 

White,    Andrew    Dickson    44 

White,   Gilbert    37 

Whitman,    Walt    17 

Willard,    Josiah    Flynt    19 

Wordsworth,     Dorothy     42 

Wordsworth,    William    43 


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